Shifts in Masculinity Preferences Across the Menstrual Cycle: Still Not There

Sex Roles

Volumn 69, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 507-515

  Harris, Christine R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Evolutionary theory; Infidelity; Masculinity preferences; Menstrual cycle shifts; Ovulatory cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886749666     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0229-0     Document Type: Review

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