Sex and gender differences research design for basic, clinical, and population studies: essentials for investigators

JW Rich-Edwards, UB Kaiser, GL Chen… - Endocrine …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A sex-and gender-informed perspective increases rigor, promotes discovery, and expands
the relevance of biomedical research. In the current era of accountability to present data for …

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 …

Increasing transparency through a multiverse analysis

S Steegen, F Tuerlinckx, A Gelman… - Perspectives on …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Empirical research inevitably includes constructing a data set by processing raw data into a
form ready for statistical analysis. Data processing often involves choices among several …

Origins of music in credible signaling

SA Mehr, MM Krasnow, GA Bryant… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

A traveler's guide to the multiverse: Promises, pitfalls, and a framework for the evaluation of analytic decisions

M Del Giudice, SW Gangestad - Advances in Methods and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Decisions made by researchers while analyzing data (eg, how to measure variables, how to
handle outliers) are sometimes arbitrary, without an objective justification for choosing one …

No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women's hormonal status

BC Jones, AC Hahn, CI Fisher, H Wang… - Psychological …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Although widely cited as strong evidence that sexual selection has shaped human facial-
attractiveness judgments, findings suggesting that women's preferences for masculine …

On attenuated interactions, measurement error, and statistical power: Guidelines for social and personality psychologists

KR Blake, S Gangestad - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The replication crisis has seen increased focus on best practice techniques to improve the
reliability of scientific findings. What remains elusive to many researchers and is frequently …

Using 26,000 diary entries to show ovulatory changes in sexual desire and behavior.

RC Arslan, KM Schilling, TM Gerlach… - Journal of Personality …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Social cognition and sex: Are men and women really different?

M Di Tella, F Miti, RB Ardito, M Adenzato - Personality and Individual …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social cognition includes the ability to represent other people's intentions and beliefs, and
the ability to share and recognise the emotions of others. Here, the main aim was to assess …

[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 …