The ovulatory shift hypothesis holds that women experience evolutionarily adaptive changes in subconscious thoughts and behaviors related to mating during different parts of the ovulatory cycle.[1][2] It suggests that what women want, in terms of men, changes throughout the menstrual cycle. Two meta-analyses published in 2014 reached opposing conclusions on whether the existing evidence was robust enough to support the prediction that women's mate preferences change across the cycle.[3][4] A newer 2018 review does not show women changing the type of men they desire at different times in their fertility cycle.[5]
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:32was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Jones, Benedict C.; Hahn, Amanda C.; Debruine, Lisa M. (2019). "Ovulation, Sex Hormones, and Women's Mating Psychology" (PDF). Trends in Cognitive Sciences (Review). 23 (1): 51–62. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2018.10.008. PMID 30477896. S2CID 53715304.
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