The impact of weather on women's tendency to wear red or pink when at high risk for conception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Tracy, Jessica L ^a   Beall, Alec T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOTHING; COLD EXPOSURE; COLOR; CONCEPTION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PINK DRESS; RED DRESS; SEXOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WARM WEATHER; WEATHER; ASSOCIATION; CANADA; FERTILITY; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLOTHING; CUES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; OVULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84896109788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088852     Document Type: Article

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