We did not look at the origin of preferences, which may involve the person having had that particular treatment before and knowing that the treatment has helped and what the treatment involves.
No studies to date have tried to separate the origins of preferences for these two components of courtship signals.
The involvement of patients in decisions about their care fulfils a fundamental tenet of high quality care, but it is important to unravel the origin of patient preferences.
Our hypothesis as to the microbial origin of food preferences predicts that these microbes will influence their host to choose the foods upon which they specialize.
Studying adult peanut butter eaters sheds little light on the origins of personal preference.
This could support Mr. Buckley's congenital theory of the origins of personal preference in peanut butter.
The origins of this preference are complex, having to do with tangled notions about purity versus contamination, self-indulgence versus self-control, and the ambivalence with which we regard our own appetites.
Whatever the truth of these fears, Eve Sedgwick is right, in my view, to say that no specific form of explanation for the origins of sexual preference will be proof against the infinitely varied strategies of homophobia (Sedgwick 1990, esp. 22 63).
These results suggest that researchers need to go beyond the distinction between communicative and manipulative activities to understand the origins of hand preference.
In conclusion, we have decoupled the origins of the preference on the sexual signal and signal intensity by manipulating predation risk.
However, Hispanic ethnicity includes numerous subgroups that differ by country of origin, language preference, duration of residence in the U.S., and asthma prevalence [ 8, 9].
