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    Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory is a body of theoretical work examining communication between individuals, both within species and across...
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    multiple subject fields including signal processing, information theory and biology. In signal processing, a signal is a function that conveys information...
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    1975. It is meant to explain how "signal selection" during mate choice may lead to "honest" or reliable signalling between male and female animals which...
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  • In contract theory, signalling (or signaling; see spelling differences) is the idea that one party (the agent) credibly conveys some information about...
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  • International Code of Signals, a standard for sending signals by displaying flags Maritime flag signalling, generally flaghoist signalling, by which ships communicate...
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  • Detection theory or signal detection theory is a means to measure the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns (called stimulus in...
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    application of game theory to evolution with George R. Price, and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. John Maynard...
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    signal or an approximation thereof. Signal compressors Digital signal processors (DSPs) Differential equations Recurrence relations Transform theory Time-frequency...
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  • Costly signaling theory in evolutionary psychology refers to uses of costly signaling theory and adaptationism in explanations for psychological traits...
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    vocal and nonvocal signalling and coupled it with increased receiver monitoring. Chimpanzee age impacts the frequency of alarm signalling. Chimpanzees over...
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  • Narcissism Sanctimommy Signalling theory Superiority complex The Mote and the Beam The Pharisee and the Publican Virtue signalling "definition of holier-than-thou...
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  • pejorative usage of the term "virtue signalling," in a 2015 Spectator article. His 2015 formulation described virtue signalling as empty boasting (directly or...
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  • Countersignaling (category Game theory)
    primarily useful for analyzing human behavior and thus relevant to signaling theory in economics, sociology and psychology. Many of the things that people...
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    individuals to adhere to orthodox views, or it may signal a willingness to comply with authority. Signalling theory can be used in e-commerce research. Information...
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  • analytical contributions to the concept of trust by using game theory and signalling theory. In 1983 Gambetta received his PhD in social and political sciences...
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    Aposematism (redirect from Warning signal)
    warning signal for surviving kin, resulting in higher inclusive fitness for the dead or injured individuals through kin selection. A theory for the evolution...
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    receiver, the information is referred to as a "signal". Signalling theory predicts that for a signal to be maintained in the population, both the sender...
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  • theory — Galois theory — Game theory — Gauge theory — Graph theory — Group theory — Hodge theory — Homology theory — Homotopy theory — Ideal theory —...
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    Differential signalling does not make a line balanced, nor does noise rejection in balanced circuits require differential signalling. Differential signalling is...
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  • with the Joneses Downshifting (lifestyle) Frugality Over-consumption Signalling theory Simple living Veblen good Feminism Notes Bain, Jonathan. 2008. "Thorstein...
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    Stotting (category Signalling theory)
    honest signal of condition. Tim Caro comments that there is insufficient evidence "to support or refute a startle effect of stotting, prey signalling its...
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    theory, a signaling game is a simple type of a dynamic Bayesian game. The essence of a signalling game is that one player takes an action, the signal...
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    Ficus – r/K selection theory selection – selective breeding – selfish DNA – The Selfish Gene – sexual selection – signalling theory – sociobiology – social...
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    of mating rituals. Human men advertise their suitability as mates by signalling their status in the social hierarchy, often by acquiring wealth or fame...
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    Deimatic behaviour (category Signalling theory)
    deimatic. Animal coloration Cheating (biology) Deception in animals Signalling theory Startle Display. Elsevier. Retrieved 17 December 2016 Stevens, Martin...
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  • that conventionalist and revelationist theories are equally plausible. From the perspective of signalling theory, the main obstacle to the evolution of...
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  • consumption Social status Virtue signalling Conspicuous leisure Class consciousness Anti-consumerism Sign value Signalling theory Griskevicius, Vladas; Tybur...
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  • approaches to depression are attempts by evolutionary psychologists to use the theory of evolution to shed light on the problem of mood disorders within the perspective...
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    to deceive a third, the dupe. In terms of signalling theory, the mimic and model have evolved to send a signal; the dupe has evolved to receive it from...
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    Courtship display (category Signalling theory)
    mate, typically the dominant male. To explain this behaviour, Hamilton's theory of kin selection suggests that subordinate males receive indirect benefits...
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