Hormones and social monitoring: Menstrual cycle shifts in progesterone underlie women's sensitivity to social information

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-16

  Maner, Jon K ^a   Miller, Saul L ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Categorization; Hormones; Menstrual cycle; Progesterone; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891163564     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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