Male sexual attractiveness predicts differential ovulatory shifts in female extra-pair attraction and male mate retention

By Elizabeth G. Pillsworth, M. Haselton. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Intrasexual competition among women: Vocal femininity affects perceptions of attractiveness and flirtatiousness (2011, background): “…2009) and attractiveness (Pipitone & Gallup, 2008) near ovulation, when women are more interested in interacting with men (Guegen, 2009; Haselton & Gangestad, 2006) and in extra-pair copulations (Pillsworth & Haselton, 2006), also suggesting a link between vocal femininity and sexual interest.”
• The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “In parallel, less attractive men were more likely to engage in loving and jealous mate guarding behaviors when their partners were ovulating, suggesting that they were responding to cues related to the women’s fertility status (Pillsworth & Haselton, 2006; Haselton & Gangestad, 2006).”
• Automatic inattention to attractive alternatives: the evolved psychology of relationship maintenance (2008, unknown): “Theories of good genes sexual selection suggest that women prefer physically attractive men in part because physical attractiveness serves as a potential sign of high genetic fitness (e.g., Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; Pillsworth & Haselton, 2006; Scheib, Gangestad, & Thornhill, 1999).”
• Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “…sexual interest increases near ovulation (Gangestad, Thornhill, & Garver, 2002), and this cyclic shift occurs mainly in women whose primary partners are putatively of low genetic quality (Gangestad, Thornhill, & Garver-Apgar, 2005; Haselton & Gangestad, 2006; Pillsworth & Haselton, 2006).”
• How valid are assessments of conception probability in ovulatory cycle research? Evaluations, recommendations, and theoretical implications (2016, unknown): “Just as Preacher et al. (2005) do not recommend ad hoc extreme group selection, we do not recommend trimming a sample to more cleanly define high- and lowfertility groups.”