Ovulation, sex hormones, and women's mating psychology

BC Jones, AC Hahn, LM DeBruine - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019 - cell.com
The dual mating strategy hypothesis proposes that women's preferences for uncommitted
sexual relationships with men displaying putative fitness cues increase during the high …

[HTML][HTML] Women's preferences for men's facial masculinity are strongest under favorable ecological conditions

UM Marcinkowska, MJ Rantala, AJ Lee, MV Kozlov… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The strength of sexual selection on secondary sexual traits varies depending on prevailing
economic and ecological conditions. In humans, cross-cultural evidence suggests women's …

A multivariate analysis of women's mating strategies and sexual selection on men's facial morphology

TR Clarkson, MJ Sidari, R Sains… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The strength and direction of sexual selection via female choice on masculine facial traits in
men is a paradox in human mate choice research. While masculinity may communicate …

The role of mating context and fecundability in women's preferences for men's facial masculinity and beardedness

BJW Dixson, KR Blake, TF Denson… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
The ovulatory shift hypothesis proposes that women's preferences for masculine physical
and behavioral traits are greater at the peri-ovulatory period than at other points of the …

Mating strategies and the masculinity paradox: How relationship context, relationship status, and sociosexuality shape women's preferences for facial masculinity and …

RE Stower, AJ Lee, TL McIntosh, MJ Sidari… - Archives of Sexual …, 2020 - Springer
According to the dual mating strategy model, in short-term mating contexts women should
forego paternal investment qualities in favor of mates with well-developed secondary sexual …

Average ovarian hormone levels, rather than daily values and their fluctuations, are related to facial preferences among women

UM Marcinkowska, G Kaminski, AC Little… - Hormones and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Hormones are of crucial importance for human behavior. Cyclical changes of ovarian
hormones throughout women's menstrual cycle are suggested to underlie fluctuation in …

Multivariate intra-sexual selection on men's perceptions of male facial morphology

V Mefodeva, MJ Sidari, H Chau, B Fitzsimmons… - … Human Behavior and …, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Intra-sexual selection has shaped the evolution of sexually dimorphic traits in
males of many primates, including humans. In men, sexual dimorphism in craniofacial shape …

Facial hair may slow detection of happy facial expressions in the face in the crowd paradigm

BJW Dixson, T Spiers, PA Miller, MJ Sidari… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Human visual systems have evolved to extract ecologically relevant information from
complex scenery. In some cases, the face in the crowd visual search task demonstrates an …

Mothers are sensitive to men's beards as a potential cue of paternal investment

BJW Dixson, S Kennedy-Costantini, AJ Lee… - Hormones and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mating strategy theories assert that women's preferences for androgen dependent traits in
men are stronger when the costs of reduced paternal investment are lowest. Past research …

Men's facial hair preferences reflect facial hair impression management functions across contexts and men know it

Ł Jach, M Moroń, PK Jonason - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2023 - Springer
Men with distinct facial hair are perceived as more aggressive, dominant, older, and more
formidable, mostly by other men. However, despite considerable interest in the social …