Non-pheromonal signals by ovulatory phase women

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Concealed ovulation is consistently used by psychologists to shift the focus from the influence of

pheromones and hormones on behavior to a focus on visual stimuli and conscious choice. Here is another article that

integrates the biology and psychology of mate signaling and mate choice.

"... Haselton and colleagues said

their findings disproved the conventional wisdom that women are unique among animals in concealing, even from

themselves, when they are most

fertile."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061010/...ovulation_dc_1

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Excerpt from the journal article preprint (i.e., proof copy).
Martie G. Haselton et al., Ovulatory

shifts in human female ornamentation: Near ovulation, women dress to impress, Hormones and Behavior (2006),

doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.07.007

"...our results appear to provide strong objective evidence of changes in

women's overt, observable behaviors associated with ovulation. In contrast to subtle changes in facial

appearance... and body scents... variation in women's selfgrooming and ornamentation behaviors are perhaps the

most readily available cues to ovulation and associated shifts in female motivation available to male partners. They

may therefore be responsible, in part, for changes in relationship dynamics across the cycle, such as ovulatory

increases in men's mate retention efforts.... The ornamentation effect is one of the most striking pieces of

evidence that ovulation in humans is not fully concealed."

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