Abstract

GARCIA-LOPEZ, Georgina I; AGUILAR MORENO, Magdalena  and  AGUILERA REYES, Ulises. Atractivo sexual femenino a lo largo del ciclo menstrual: análisis bajo la perspectiva de la psicología evolutiva. Rev Arg Antrop Biol [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.1, pp.47-53. ISSN 1514-7991.

One of the most important challenges for studies on humans is to explain the physiological mechanisms underlying the unfolding of human behavior. Developmental psychology seeks to establish a causal relationship between the way in which humans behave and the physiological changes that they experience. In order to provide a developmental interpretation of human behavior, we tested the hypothesis that proposes that men perceive women as more attractive during ovulation, given certain phenotypic changes caused by estrogen concentration-, which constitute signals of fertility. Furthermore, we put forward that other women are able to discriminate ovulation as a mechanism of female competition, since in this period women may seem more attractive to their partners. To test this hypothesis monitoring of progesterone and estradiol concentrations was performed in 50 women throughout their menstrual cycle. Photographs were taken in each of the cycle phases (early follicular, late follicular, periovulatory and luteal phase), and men and women were asked in which photograph women were more attractive. Both men and women answered that women are more attractive when in the periovulatory period (late follicular and periovulatory).

Keywords : atracción; ovulación; resguardo de pareja; estrategia femenina; attraction; ovulation; partner guarding; female strategy.

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