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Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]
- mike_hock 4mo agoDo women keep changing their settings in that Gnome 2 fork over the course of their ovulatory cycle? Oh, that kind of mate.
- bombcar 4mo agoI was hoping for chess moves, myself.
- warumdarum 4mo agoThe ovulatory cycle where a peasant becomes a queen.
- sameersri2004 4mo agoYes, it does from follicular to ovulation...
- Hnrobert42 4mo agoIt's 2026, and I still can't read a PDF on mobile. I must be doing something wrong. I'm using FF Focus. Is that it? I tried Safari. Either they moved the reader button, or it's not present for PDFs. Help me Obi-Wan.
- bestouff 4mo agoUnder Firefox Focus I can read it if I manually zoom and scroll. Not ideal.
- Hnrobert42 4mo agoThat's exactly what I mean. This is how animals live.
- crims0n 4mo agoPDFs are generally meant for printed paper, it's not you - it's the medium.
- leoncos 4mo agoMany behaviors are determined by hormones. Men are no exception. When calm, men tend to prefer intellectual women, but when they're impulsive after drinking in a bar, they prefer sexy women.
- marcinostefano 4mo ago[flagged]
- dnnddidiej 4mo agoNope
- marcinostefano 4mo ago[flagged]
- throawayonthe 4mo ago[flagged]
- marcinostefano 4mo ago[flagged]
- dnnddidiej 4mo agoIt is OK! Don't forget we are animals first. Obviously we need that neocortex to keep decisions in check!
- rusk 4mo agoIn my experience it’s usually the other way around
- crims0n 4mo agoIt is a curious thing how drinking affects people in different ways. Some people get reflective, others belligerent.
- block_dagger 4mo agoFindings of TFA: Yes. Women show a robust increase in attraction to cues of ancestral genetic quality (body masculinity, behavioral dominance) on high-fertility days, but only when evaluating men as short-term/unspecified sexual partners, not long-term partners.
- redsocksfan45 4mo ago[dead]
- andyferris 4mo agoCan we summarize this as "people get horny sometimes" and "ovulating people get horny"? Or is that too reductive?
- corwinxpro 4mo ago[flagged]
- jasonlotito 4mo agoWhat do you wonder exactly? Where is the confusion? Do you not know what ovulation is? Ovulation is the phase of the menstrual cycle when a mature egg is released from the ovary. Do you not understand what people are? People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories. Okay, I'm being cheeky here. Or is it that you assume that people can't ovulate? I can assure you, they can. For example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7200380/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7200380/
- marcinostefano 4mo agoIn human spieces only woman is able to ovulate.
- Kuraj 4mo agoYou literally got a research paper proving the contrary handed to you on a silver platter. We know what you were trying to say, the parent comment is calling you out
- Nzen 4mo agoI don't know what an ovulatory cycle feels like; but, I trust Lindsay Doe's account [0] of how she feels across a given period. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLXxxHVOeec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLXxxHVOeec 11 minutes
- Jensson 4mo agoIt probably feels a bit like before and after ejaculation for a man, just it happens way quicker for men. Pretty sure if you studied that you'd find mens preferences in women changes a lot as well.
- zug_zug 4mo agoThis research is one of the important studies in my own understanding of the world. I think it's the type of thing people are cautious to talk about too much because it might drive a certain type of person crazy and lead them to overcompensate in weird/destructive ways. I also remember there's a study on how hormonal birth control (which causes the body to perceive itself as pregnant) affects these preferences too. In some ways we really are "experimenting on production." I also think there's some hesitation to talk about that a lot and come-across as anti-choice. But beliefs must come from the research, not vice-versa.
- K0balt 4mo agoIn the end we’re just improvements on the worm/tube plan, and we run things based on chemical soup that is mostly inside our bodies these days, but whose composition has a significant influence on our behavior. Thats why it’s great to have a neocortex, so we con at least be marginally in control of our decisions if we maintain a consistent effort to do so. But yeah, in my empirical experience, moon phases, ovolatory cycles, hormone manipulation therapies… all have a gigantic impact on our base physiological and psychological state. I live in a place where the insects operate on a lunar phase, and the plants proactively change their operations in that rhythm to match. You can taste and see the difference in tree sap here based on the lunar phase, it becomes thicker, darker, and more bitter days in advance of the insect hatching. Why would we think we are somehow a special exception from the web of life that created us?
- arowthway 4mo agoI love evolutionary psychology trivia but for me it's kind of hard to meaningfully fit 0.13 standard deviation shift in preferences into my world model.
- wjnc 4mo agoI stubbed my toe. I don’t feel like ice cream today.
- readthenotes1 4mo ago
- hambes 4mo agoI am not scientist enough to judge this, so please someone enlighten me: most categories i've read through that find a shift do so with an increase of about 0.1-0.2 standard deviations. that does not sound significant to me. is that enough to make the claims this study makes?
- Palomides 4mo agoconsidering this is a review aggregating a bunch of small n studies from before we acknowledged the replication crisis in psychology, I'm going with "no"
- fittingopposite 4mo agoStatistically significant does not necessarily mean practically significant. If you just increase your sample size sufficiently, you can measure a significant effect, despite having a small magnitude of the measured effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(statistics)#:~:text=Statistical%20power%20may%20depend,to%20detect%20the%20effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(statistics)#:~:text=Sta...
- UKPakiRapeParty 4mo ago[dead]
- brodo 4mo agoThe whole field of evolutionary psychology is in a replication crisis, and there are several newer studies that did not find any evidence for any changes in 'mate preference' across the ovulatory cycle. General sexual desire, but not desire for uncommitted sexual relationships, tracks changes in women's hormonal status https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29287282/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29287282/ Meta-Analysis of Menstrual Cycle Effects on Women’s Mate Preferences https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1754073914523073 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/175407391452307...
- thriei93i3i3 4mo ago"Replication crisis" is way too kind. The whole research field has the same credibility, as the "size does not matter" fact.