Elusiveness of menstrual cycle effects on mate preferences: Comment on Gildersleeve, Haselton, and Fales (2014)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1265-1271

  Wood, Wendy ^a   Carden, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mate preferences; Menstrual cycle; Meta analysis; Researcher degrees of freedom

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OVULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84904207953     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/A0036722     Document Type: Note

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