Ovulatory shifts in human female ornamentation: Near ovulation, women dress to impress
@article{Haselton2007OvulatorySI, title={Ovulatory shifts in human female ornamentation: Near ovulation, women dress to impress}, author={Martie G. Haselton and Mina Mortezaie and Elizabeth G. Pillsworth and April Bleske-Rechek and David A. Frederick}, journal={Hormones and Behavior}, year={2007}, volume={51}, pages={40-45} }
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Female Adaptations to Ovulation
- Psychology
- 2014
Particularly when compared to many other primates, human females appear to have lost any cues to their ovulatory status at some point during our evolutionary past. Until recently, it was assumed that…
Women Ornament Themselves for Intrasexual Competition near Ovulation, but for Intersexual Attraction in Luteal Phase
- PsychologyPloS one
- 2014
The hypothesis that, during the high-fertility phase, women have an attentional bias toward ornamental objects is confirmed and further support the hypothesis that the ornamental bias is driven by intrasexual competition motivation near ovulation, but driven by intersexual courtship motivation during the luteal phase.
Changes in Women's Choice of Dress Across the Ovulatory Cycle: Naturalistic and Laboratory Task-Based Evidence
- PsychologyPersonality & social psychology bulletin
- 2008
It is suggested that clothing preference shifts could reflect an increase in female—female competition near ovulation, and sexually unrestricted women, for example, showed greater shifts in preference for revealing clothing worn to the laboratory near Ovulation.
Do women's mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? A meta-analytic review.
- PsychologyPsychological bulletin
- 2014
A meta-analysis quantitatively evaluated support for the pattern of cycle shifts predicted by the ovulatory shift hypothesis in a total sample of 134 effects from 38 published and 12 unpublished studies to reveal robust cycle shifts that were specific to women's preferences for hypothesized cues of (ancestral) genetic quality.
Women's Sexual Interests Across the Ovulatory Cycle
- Biology
- 2015
This chapter explores issues that suggest women appear to have retained a form of fertile-phase estrus, which shares functional and physiological underpinnings with estrus of other primates, and suggests women are subtly more attractive during the fertile phase.
The spandrels of Santa Barbara? A new perspective on the peri-ovulation paradigm
- Psychology
- 2015
It is argued that cyclic changes need not result from incomplete concealment of ovulatory status and that ovarian hormone levels underpin between-individual differences in both women’s attractiveness and their mate preferences, which influence the sexes’ mate-choice decisions.
Can Men Detect Ovulation?
- Psychology
- 2011
In contrast to our closest cousin, the chimpanzee, humans appear at first to lack cues of impending ovulation that would mark the fertile period in which a female can become pregnant. Consequently,…
Money, Status, and the Ovulatory Cycle
- Business
- 2014
Each month, millions of women experience an ovulatory cycle that regulates fertility. Previous consumer research has found that this cycle influences women's clothing and food preferences. The…
Female Fertility and Male Mating: Women's Ovulatory Cues Influence Men's Physiology, Cognition, and Behavior
- Psychology
- 2013
Evolutionary theories of mating suggest that shifting fertility levels during a woman’s menstrual cycle play an important role in the formation and maintenance of romantic relationships. In this…
Male Adaptations to Female Ovulation
- Psychology, Biology
- 2014
Evidence that men are sensitive to three broad types of fertility cues and that when exposed to those cues, men display changes in mate-seeking and relationship maintenance processes—changes that ultimately enhance men’s likelihood of reproductive success is reviewed.
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