Department of Psychology and Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, University of Goettingen.
Psychol Sci. 2020 Apr;31(4):424-436. doi: 10.1177/0956797619882022. Epub 2020 Mar 4.
The existence of ovulatory-cycle shifts in women's mate preferences has been a point of controversy. There is evidence that naturally cycling women in their fertile phase, compared with their luteal phase, evaluate specific behavioral cues in men as more attractive for sexual relationships. However, recent research has cast doubt on these findings. We addressed this debate in a large, preregistered, within-participants study using salivary-hormone measures and luteinizing-hormone tests. One hundred fifty-seven female participants rated the sexual and long-term attractiveness of 70 men in dyadic intersexual interactions in natural videos. Multilevel comparisons across two ovulatory cycles indicated that women's mate preferences for men's behaviors did not shift across the cycle for either competitive or courtship behavior. Within-women hormone levels and relationship status did not affect these results. Hormonal mechanisms and implications for estrus theories are discussed.
女性择偶偏好的排卵周期变化是否存在一直是一个争议点。有证据表明，与黄体期相比，处于生育期的自然排卵女性会认为男性的某些特定行为线索更具吸引力，从而有利于性关系。然而，最近的研究对这些发现提出了质疑。我们在一项大型的、预先注册的、参与者内研究中使用唾液激素测量和促黄体激素测试来解决这一争议。157 名女性参与者在自然视频中的两性互动中对 70 名男性的性吸引力和长期吸引力进行了评分。两个排卵周期的多层次比较表明，无论是竞争行为还是求爱行为，女性对男性行为的择偶偏好都不会在周期内发生变化。女性体内的激素水平和关系状况并没有影响这些结果。我们还讨论了激素机制及其对发情理论的影响。
