Goettingen Ovulatory Cycle Diaries 2

Arslan, Ruben C.; Driebe, Julie C.; Stern, Julia; Gerlach, Tanja M.; Ostner, Julia; Penke, Lars

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“…This framework enabled the complexity of the study design and also the automation of study parts with sensitive information to establish the anonymity of participants. All materials are accessible online, including survey files, data cleaning and codebooks (Arslan, Driebe et al, 2020 , see also ); the relevant analysis code for the study can be found at . Owing to the intimate nature of data and because it cannot be fully anonymised, we will share data upon request.…”

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Women feel more attractive before ovulation: evidence from a large-scale online diary study

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How attractive we find ourselves decides who we target as potential partners and influences our reproductive fitness. Self-perceptions on women's fertile days could be particularly important. However, results on how self-perceived attractiveness changes across women's ovulatory cycles are inconsistent and research has seldomly assessed multiple attractiveness-related constructs simultaneously. Here, we give an overview of ovulatory cycle shifts in self-perceived attractiveness, sexual desirability, grooming, self-esteem and positive mood. We addressed previous methodological shortcomings by conducting a large, preregistered online diary study of 872 women (580 naturally cycling) across 70 consecutive days, applying several robustness analyses, and comparing naturally cycling women to women using hormonal contraceptives. As expected, we found robust evidence for ovulatory increases in self-perceived attractiveness and sexual desirability in naturally cycling women. Unexpectedly, we found moderately robust evidence for smaller ovulatory increases in self-esteem and positive mood. Although grooming showed an ovulatory increase descriptively, the effect was small, failed to reach our strict significance level of .01 and was not robust to model variations. We discuss how these results could follow an ovulatory increase in sexual motivation while calling for more theoretical and causally informative research to uncover the nature of ovulatory cycle shifts in the future.

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Women feel more attractive before ovulation: evidence from a large-scale online diary study

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“…Upon completion of all sessions, participants received a payment of 80€ or course credit. Participants were invited to take part in a parallel, but separate online diary study (Arslan, Driebe, et al, 2020) from which we were able to match data for n = 142 participants to use measures of self-reported personality traits.…”

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Investigating cycle shifts in women's clothing style and grooming

Stern,

Ostermann,

Penke

2023

British J Social Psychol

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In contrast to some non‐human primate species, human females do not show overt cues to fertility. Previous research argued that women still show systematic changes in their appearance across their ovulatory cycle to enhance their mating success when fertile. We report five studies investigating whether women's clothing style and grooming behaviour change across the ovulatory cycle. All studies were large (with N = 157 in Study 1, N = 109 in Study 2, N = 257 in Studies 3–5), longitudinal studies with four testing sessions per participant. They involved salivary hormone samples and luteinizing hormone tests to validate conception risk estimates. Across all studies, our results suggest no compelling evidence for cycle shifts in clothing style and grooming. Rather, two studies suggest effects in the opposite direction as hypothesized, as women wore more skin‐revealing clothes when non‐fertile. One study suggests small effects of wearing necklaces more and eyeglasses less often when fertile. However, these effects were not robust across all studies. Our results are in line with other recent null replications and suggest that, if existent, cues to fertility might be even more subtle than previously assumed. We discuss the need for testing competing theories that explain the evolution of concealed ovulation.

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“…In a preregistered online diary study on conception risk and women's mate preferences (Arslan et al, 2020b; see also https://osf.io/d3avf/), we were able to recruit a sample of 1,660 participants of whom 794 women fulfilled our inclusion criteria. The recruitment took place from June 2016 to January 2017 through a variety of channels (e.g., online platform psytests.de, advertisement on okCupid.com and Facebook and mass mailing lists of university students) as well as direct invitations of suitable candidates taking part in previous lab studies.…”

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No increased inbreeding avoidance during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle

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Mate preferences and mating-related behaviors are hypothesized to change over the menstrual cycle to increase reproductive fitness. Recent large-scale studies suggest that previously reported hormone-linked behavioral changes are not robust. The proposal that women's preference for associating with male kin is down-regulated during the ovulatory (high-fertility) phase of the menstrual cycle to reduce inbreeding has not been tested in large samples. Consequently, we investigated the relationship between longitudinal changes in women's steroid hormone levels and their perceptions of faces experimentally manipulated to possess kinship cues (Study 1). Women viewed faces displaying kinship cues as more attractive and trustworthy, but this effect was not related to hormonal proxies of conception risk. Study 2 employed a daily diary approach and found no evidence that women spent less time with kin generally or with male kin specifically during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Thus, neither study found evidence that inbreeding avoidance is up-regulated during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle.

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Goettingen Ovulatory Cycle Diaries 2

Cited by 4 publications

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Women feel more attractive before ovulation: evidence from a large-scale online diary study

Women feel more attractive before ovulation: evidence from a large-scale online diary study

Investigating cycle shifts in women's clothing style and grooming

No increased inbreeding avoidance during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle

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