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 …

Particularly when compared to many other primates, human females appear to have lost any
cues to their ovulatory status at some point during our evolutionary past. Until recently, it was …

Previous research reported ovulatory changes in women's appearance, mate preferences,
extra-and in-pair sexual desire, and behavior, but has been criticized for small sample sizes …

Humans differ from many other primates in the apparent absence of obvious advertisements
of fertility within the ovulatory cycle. However, recent studies demonstrate increases in …

Highlights•Recent research reveals cues of ovulation in women that observers can
detect.•These include attractive changes in women's scents, voices, and appearance.• …

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 …

Previous research on the endogenous effects of ovarian hormones on motivational states in
women has focused on sexual motivation. The Motivational Priority Shifts Hypothesis has a …

Prior research has produced mixed findings regarding whether women feel more attractive
during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Here, we analyzed cycle phase and …

Reports an error in" Using 26,000 diary entries to show ovulatory changes in sexual desire
and behavior" by Ruben C. Arslan, Katharina M. Schilling, Tanja M. Gerlach and Lars Penke …

In an ancestral world without modern contraception, how did women regulate their fertility?
We argue that fertility may be regulated by context-dependent changes in sexual motivation …