Non-pheromonal signals by ovulatory phase women
Concealed ovulation is consistently used by psychologists to shift the focus from the influence of
pheromones and hormones on behavior to a focus on visual stimuli and conscious choice. Here is another article that
integrates the biology and psychology of mate signaling and mate choice.
"... Haselton and colleagues said
their findings disproved the conventional wisdom that women are unique among animals in concealing, even from
themselves, when they are most
fertile."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061010/...ovulation_dc_1
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Fertile women dress to impress --follow up
Excerpt from the journal article preprint (i.e., proof copy).
Martie G. Haselton et al., Ovulatory
shifts in human female ornamentation: Near ovulation, women dress to impress, Hormones and Behavior (2006),
doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.07.007
"...our results appear to provide strong objective evidence of changes in
women's overt, observable behaviors associated with ovulation. In contrast to subtle changes in facial
appearance... and body scents... variation in women's selfgrooming and ornamentation behaviors are perhaps the
most readily available cues to ovulation and associated shifts in female motivation available to male partners. They
may therefore be responsible, in part, for changes in relationship dynamics across the cycle, such as ovulatory
increases in men's mate retention efforts.... The ornamentation effect is one of the most striking pieces of
evidence that ovulation in humans is not fully concealed."
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