@article{ ISI:000298386500014,
  author = {Bowers, Robert I. and Place, Skyler S. and Todd, Peter M. and Penke,
   Lars and Asendorpf, Jens B.},
  title = {{Generalization in mate-choice copying in humans}},
  journal = {{BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY}},
  year = {{2012}},
  volume = {{23}},
  number = {{1}},
  pages = {{112-124}},
  month = {{JAN-FEB}},
  abstract = {{There is much evidence that humans, as other species, are affected by
   social information when making mate-choice decisions. Witnessing a rival
   show interest in a member of the opposite sex tends to lead human
   observers of both sexes to thereafter rate that person as more appealing
   as a potential mate. However, how this occurs is not well understood. We
   investigate whether this effect is specific to the individual witnessed
   or will generalize to other potential mates with shared
   characteristics-that is, whether humans exhibit trait-based or just
   individual-based mate-choice copying. We found that whereas this kind of
   generalization did occur with some traits, it appeared to depend on age,
   and conspicuously, it did not occur with (inner) facial traits. We
   discuss possible explanations for the age specificity and cue
   specificity in terms of informational benefits and how people attend to
   unfamiliar faces.}},
  doi = {{10.1093/beheco/arr164}},
  issn = {{1045-2249}},
  unique-id = {{ISI:000298386500014}}
}

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