Elastic analysis procedures: An incurable (but preventable) problem in the fertility effect literature: Comment on Gildersleeve, Haselton, and Fales (2014)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1260-1264

  Harris, Christine R ^a   Pashler, Harold ^a   Mickes, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fertility effects; Mate preferences; Menstrual cycle; Ovulatory cycle; P hacking

Indexed keywords

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

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

EID: 84906875920     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036478     Document Type: Note

References (21)

1. Durante, K. M., Rae, A., & Griskevicius, V. (2013). The fluctuating female vote: Politics, religion, and the ovulatory cycle. Psychological Science, 24, 1007-1016.
2. Gangestad, S. W., Garver-Apgar, C. E., Simpson, J. A., & Cousins, A. J. (2007). Changes in women's mate preferences across the ovulatory cycle. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 151-163.
3. Gildersleeve, K., DeBruine, L., Haselton, M. G., Frederic, D. A., Penton-Voak, I. S., Jones, B. C., & Perrett, D. I. (2013). Shifts in women's mate preferences across the cycle: A critique of Harris (2011) and Harris (2012). Sex Roles, 69, 516-524.
4. Gildersleeve, K., Haselton, M. G., & Fales, M. R. (2014). Do women's mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 140, 1205-1259.
5. Harris, C. R. (2011). Menstrual cycle and facial preferences reconsidered. Sex Roles, 64, 669-681.
6. Harris, C. R. (2013). Shifts in masculinity preferences across the menstrual cycle: Still not there. Sex Roles, 69, 507-515.
7. Harris, C. R., Chabot, A., & Mickes, L. (2013). Shifts in methodology and theory in menstrual cycle research on attraction. Sex Roles, 69, 525-535.
8. Harris, C. R., & Mickes, L. (in press). Women can keep the vote: No evidence that hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle impact political and religious beliefs. Psychological Science.
9. Haselton, M. G., & Gangestad, S. W. (2006). Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle. Hormones and Behavior, 49, 509-518.
10. Little, A. C., Jones, B. C., Burt, D. M., & Perrett, D. I. (2007). Preferences for symmetry in faces change across the menstrual cycle. Biological Psychology, 76, 209-216.
11. Mickes, L., & Harris, C. R. (2013). [No ovulatory cycle effects on masculinity preferences]. Unpublished data.
12. Morrison, E. R., Clark, A. P., Gralewski, L., Campbell, N., & Penton-Voak, I. S. (2010). Women's probability of conception is associated with their preference for flirtatious but not masculine facial movement. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 1297-1304.
13. Penton-Voak, I. S., & Perrett, D. I. (2000). Female preference for male faces changes cyclically: Further evidence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 21, 39-48.
14. Penton-Voak, I. S., Perrett, D. I., Castles, D. L., Kobayashi, T., Burt, D. M., Murray, L. K., & Minamisawa, R. (1999, June 24). Menstrual cycle alters face preference. Nature, 399, 741-742.
15. Pillsworth, E. G., & Haselton, M. G. (2006). Male sexual attractiveness predicts differential ovulatory shifts in female extra-pair attraction and male mate retention. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27, 247-258.
16. Rupp, H. A., Librach, G. R., Feipel, N. C., Ketterson, E. D., Sengelaub, D. R., & Heiman, J. R. (2009). Partner status influences women's interest in the opposite sex. Human Nature, 20, 93-104.
17. Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science, 22, 1359-1366.
18. Thornhill, R., Chapman, J. F., & Gangestad, S. W. (2013). Women's preferences for men's scents associated with testosterone and cortisol levels: Patterns across the ovulatory cycle. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 216-221.
19. Wagenmakers, E. J., Wetzels, R., Borsboom, D., van der Maas, H. L., & Kievit, R. A. (2012). An agenda for purely confirmatory research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 632-638.
20. Wilcox, A. J., Dunson, D. B., Weinberg, C. R., Trussell, J., & Baird, D. D. (2001). Likelihood of conception with a single act of intercourse: Providing benchmark rates for assessment of post-coital contraceptives. Contraception, 63, 211-215.
21. Wood, W., Kressel, L., Joshi, P. D., & Louie, B. (2014). Meta-analysis of menstrual cycle effects on women's mate preferences. Emotion Review, 6, 229-249.