Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and
decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social …

Scientific interest in whether women experience changes across the ovulatory cycle in
mating-related motivations, preferences, cognitions, and behaviors has surged in the past 2 …

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been
overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty …

Over the past two decades, a large literature examining psychological changes across
women's ovulatory cycles has accumulated, emphasizing comparisons between fertile and …

Recent formulations of sexual selection theory emphasize how mate choice can be affected
by environmental factors, such as predation risk and resource quality. Women vary greatly in …

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional
conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional …

This article provides a historical context of evolutionary psychology and feminism, and
evaluates the contributions to this special issue of Sex Roles within that context. We briefly …

For several decades, scholars of human sexuality have almost uniformly assumed that
women evolutionarily lost oestrus—a phase of female sexuality occurring near ovulation and …

In evolutionary psychology predictions, women's mate preferences shift between fertile and
nonfertile times of the month to reflect ancestral fitness benefits. Our meta-analytic test …

The dual mating strategy hypothesis proposes that women's preferences for uncommitted
sexual relationships with men displaying putative fitness cues increase during the high …