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What do women want? It depends on the time of the month

By Guest PostMarch 1, 2014Healthcycle, do, facial symmetry, genetic quality, heterosexual sex partners, hypothesis, kelly gildersleeve, martie haselton, menstrual cycle, meta analysis, offspring, ovulation, ovulatory cycle, reproducing, reproductive success, sexual ornaments, sexual preference, sexy traits, time of month, what, woman, women want

UCLA researchers publish landmark meta-analysis of sexual preferences at ovulation

If she loves you and then she loves you not, don’t blame the petals of that daisy. Blame evolution.

UCLA researchers analyzed dozens of published and unpublished studies on how women’s preferences for mates change throughout the menstrual cycle. Their findings suggest that ovulating women have evolved to prefer mates who display sexy traits – such as a masculine body type and facial features, dominant behavior and certain scents – but not traits typically desired in long-term mates. (more…)

Prejudice Linked to Women’s Menstrual Cycle

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Women’s bias against male strangers increases when women are fertile, suggesting prejudice may be partly fueled by genetics, according to a study by Michigan State University psychology researchers.

The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, appears online in Psychological Science, a major research journal.

“Our findings suggest that women’s prejudice, at least in part, may be a byproduct of their biology,” said Melissa McDonald, a doctoral student and lead author on the paper. (more…)

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What do women want? It depends on the time of the month

Prejudice Linked to Women’s Menstrual Cycle