Courtship - Research News and Information

Monday, September 08, 2008

Prevalence and correlates of dating violence in a national sample of adolescents.

Jul 2008 OBJECTIVE: Dating violence is an important but understudied public health concern in adolescents. This study sought to examine the lifetime prevalence of serious forms of dating violence in 12- to 17- year-olds, risk... Read more...

Ultrasonic frogs show hyperacute phonotaxis to female courtship calls.

12 Jun 2008 Sound communication plays a vital role in frog reproduction, in which vocal advertisement is generally the domain of males. Females are typically silent, but in a few anuran species they can produce a feeble reciprocal... Read more...

Perceived conflict patterns and relationship quality associated with verbal sexual coercion by male dating partners.

Jun 2008 The study of verbal sexual coercion in heterosexual relationships is controversial because nonphysical coercive tactics are often viewed as socially acceptable. It was hypothesized that, within couples, verbal sexual... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Courtship'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prevalence and correlates of dating violence in a national sample of adolescents. Jul 2008
• Ultrasonic frogs show hyperacute phonotaxis to female courtship calls. 12 Jun 2008
• Perceived conflict patterns and relationship quality associated with verbal sexual coercion by male dating partners. Jun 2008
• Clustering of adolescent dating violence, peer violence, and suicidal behavior. Jun 2008
• Practice tips. Love matters: a counseling tool to assess couple relationships. Jun 2008
• Social information processing mediates the intergenerational transmission of aggressiveness in romantic relationships. Jun 2008
• Peak of desire: activating the mating goal changes life-stage preferences across living kinds. Jun 2008
• The evolution of courtship behaviors through the origination of a new gene in Drosophila. 27 May 2008
• Sexual bullying: addressing the gap between bullying and dating violence. 24 May 2008
• Increased dopamine level enhances male-male courtship in Drosophila. 21 May 2008
• Gender differences in dating aggression among multiethnic high school students. May 2008
• Adult attachment as a risk factor for intimate partner violence: the "mispairing" of partners' attachment styles. May 2008
• Sexual boundaries: an examination of the importance of talking before touching. May 2008
• Jennifer fever in academic medicine: comment. May 2008
• To paddle or not: context dependent courtship display by male blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. Apr 2008
• Romantic functioning and depressive symptoms among early adolescent girls: the moderating role of parental emotional availability. Apr 2008
• Association of child sexual abuse and dating victimization with mental health disorder in a sample of adolescent girls. Apr 2008
• Romantic relationships and eating regulation: an investigation of partners' attempts to control each others' eating behaviors. Apr 2008
• Evolutionary perspective on indirect victimization in adolescence: the role of attractiveness, dating and sexual behavior. 21 Mar 2008
• Changes in reproductive courtship behaviors of adult American kestrels (Falco sparverius) exposed to environmentally relevant levels of the polybrominated diphenyl ether mixture, DE-71. Mar 2008

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Technical information about 'Courtship'

Definition: Activities designed to attract the attention or favors of another.

Descriptor UI: D003380

Alternative terms: Courtship; Courtships;

Related Mesh Headings: Love;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: F01.145.802.279; G08.520.950.279;

Technical Notes: human & animal