THE HANDICAP PRINCIPLE: A MISSING PIECE OF DARWIN'S PUZZLE

By R. Buchholz. 2000

1,338 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Reproductive Medicine

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. E. Smith
2. Richard Sosis
3. Vladas Griskevicius
4. Paul K. Piff
5. Charlotte L. Hardy
6. E. Watanabe
7. Steve Redpath
8. Ned Kock

In Reproductive Medicine

1. Charlotte L. Hardy
2. E. Watanabe
3. Steve Redpath
4. Ned Kock
5. Tara Brady
6. R. Wagner
7. S. Omohundro
8. D. Krebs

Citations in the corpus

• Responding Bodies and Partial Affinities in Human–Animal Worlds (2013, background): “See Bernd Heinrich (2000) for the ravens, Zahavi and Zahavi (1997) for the babblers, Cynthia Moss (2000) for the elephants, and Thelma Rowell (2000) for the sheep – many others could be mentioned.”
• Testosterone, immunocompetence, and honest sexual signaling in male red grouse (2004, background): “should be costly in order to ensure the honesty of the signaling system and prevent poor quality individuals from cheating (Zahavi and Zahavi, 1997).”
• Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, methodology): “In evolutionary psychology, the handicapping principle holds that signals of status are most likely to be reliable signals of true social position to the extent that they incur costs for the signaler (Zahavi & Zahavi, 1999).”
• Signaling Theory: A Review and Assessment (2011, background): “A large rack of antlers, for instance, is an honest signal that provides females with information about male genetic quality; differential squawks among nestlings, on the other hand, provide mother birds with information about which nestlings have the greatest need for food (Zahavi & Zahavi, 1997).”
• Do sincere apologies need to be costly? Test of a costly signaling model of apology (2009, positive): “Hence, it is naturally predicted that verbal communication needs to be accompanied by some costly signal when a deceptive incentive is large enough (i.e., when the honesty of low-cost signals is not warranted by shared interests; Zahavi & Zahavi, 1997).”
• Relational mobility: A socioecological approach to personal relationships. (2012, positive): “Indeed, evolutionary biologists have provided a great deal of evidence which suggests that for a signal to be useful, or trustworthy, at all, it must incur some cost to produce (e.g., Zahavi & Zahavi, 1997).”
• Cooperation in primates and humans : mechanisms and evolution (2006, background): “…presented suggests that strong reciprocity cannot easily be explained by kin selection (Hamilton 1964), reciprocal altruism (Trivers 1971, Axelrod & Hamilton 1981), indirect reciprocity (Alexander 1987, Nowak & Sigmund 1998) and by costly signaling theory (Zahavi & Zahavi 1997, Gintis et al. 2001).”
• Openness to Experience, Non-Conformity, and the Preference for Abstract Art (2004, background): “Miller contends that one form of sexual selection through which aesthetic preferences have evolved in humans is called “the handicap principle” (Zahavi & Zahavi, 1997).”