ArticleEvolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
Importance of Daily Sex Hormone Measurements Within the Menstrual Cycle for Fertility Estimates in Cyclical Shifts Studies.
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- Wearable-Derived Heart Rate Variability Across the Menstrual Cycle, Hormonal Contraceptive Use, and Reproductive Life Stages in Females: A Living Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Pooled it
- Revisiting the Relation Between Steroid Hormones and Unethicality in an Exploratory, Longitudinal Study With Female Participants.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2025Article
- Menstrual Cycle Hormonal Changes and Energy Substrate Metabolism in Exercising Women: A Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Stability of women's facial shape throughout the menstrual cycle.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Sexual Desire of Women With Fast and Slow Life History Throughout the Ovulatory Cycle.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Recent discussions have highlighted the importance of fertility measurements for the study of peri-ovulatory shifts in women's mating psychology and mating-related behaviors. Participants in such studies typically attend at least two test sessions, one of which is, at least in theory, scheduled to occur during the high-fertility, peri-ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle. A crucial part of this debate is whether luteinizing hormone (LH) tests alone are sufficient to accurately assign test sessions to the peri-ovulatory phase. This article adds to this ongoing debate by presenting analyses of a detailed database of daily estradiol levels and LH tests for 102 menstrual cycles. Based on more than 4,000 hormonal measurements, it is clear that individual differences in length of the cycle, length of the luteal phase and, perhaps most importantly, the discrepancy between the timing of the LH surge and the drop in estradiol that follows it are pronounced. Less than 40% of analyzed cycles followed the
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