
Žaneta PátkováCharles University in Prague | CUNI · Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Žaneta Pátková
Doctor of Philosophy
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January 2018 - June 2022
Education
September 2018 - September 2023
September 2016 - September 2018
September 2013 - September 2016
Charles University in Prague
Field of study
- Faculty of Humanities
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Previous research has indicated that facial attractiveness may provide cues to the functioning of the immune system. Mating with individuals who have a more effective immune system could lead to a higher reproductive success. Our main aim was to test a possible association between immunoreactivity (stimulated by vaccination) and perceived facial at...
Assessing the attractiveness of potential mating partners typically involves multiple sensory modalities, including the integration of olfactory, visual, and auditory cues. However, predictions diverge on how the individual modalities should relate to each other. According to the backup signals hypothesis, multimodal cues provide redundant informat...
Several previous studies have shown that in mammals, the health status of conspecifics can be assessed based on perceptual cues. Olfactory, visual, or acoustic cues may lead to avoidant behavior, thus reducing the risk of contagion by close contact with infected individuals. We tested whether immune system activation after immunization leads to per...
Research shows that male body odor plays an important role in women’s mate choice and that olfactory abilities are associated with women’s sexual functioning. What remains unclear is what types of partner’s odor actually shape women’s experience during intimate activities. This study therefore explored women’s experience associated with the partner...
Previous studies have shown that women perceive male faces with a more reactive immune system as more attractive, but whether body odor might likewise provide cues to immune function has not been investigated yet. These two studies tested a possible relationship between body odor quality and immunoreactivity (Study 1) and immune system function (St...
Behaviorální imunitní systém představuje vedle tělesného imunitního systému další obranný nástroj organismu. Jeho hlavní funkcí je detekce a vyhnutí se potenciálně ohrožujícím podnětům, jež mohou vést k přenosu patogenů. Včasná vyhýbavá reakce organismu významně snižuje energii, jež by jinak byla vydána na metabolicky náročné reakce tělesného imuni...
Previous studies have suggested possible association between immune function and facial attractiveness in humans. Mating with individuals with more reactive immune system could lead to higher reproductive success and thus it is possible that visual cues facilitating detection of such individuals may have evolved.
The main aim of the present study...
Výsledky předchozích výzkumů naznačují, že existuje vztah mezi tvarem obličeje a hladinami
pohlavních hormonů v průběhu vývoje jedince. Růst a vývoj obličejových rysů a především poměr
obličejové výšky a šířky (fWHR) bývá spojován s hladinami testosteronu u mužů, přičemž vyšší
fWHR bývá spojováno s jeho vyšším působením v adolescenci. Předchozí stu...