Women feel more attractive before ovulation: evidence from a large-scale online diary study.

ABSTRACT: How attractive we find ourselves decides who we target as potential partners and influences our reproductive fitness. Self-perceptions on women's fertile days could be particularly important. However, results on how self-perceived attractiveness changes across women's ovulatory cycles are inconsistent and research has seldomly assessed multiple attractiveness-related constructs simultaneously. Here, we give an overview of ovulatory cycle shifts in self-perceived attractiveness, sexual desirability, grooming, self-esteem and positive mood. We addressed previous methodological shortcomings by conducting a large, preregistered online diary study of 872 women (580 naturally cycling) across 70 consecutive days, applying several robustness analyses and comparing naturally cycling women with wome

SUBMITTER: Schleifenbaum L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427307 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature