Women wear pink when ovulating. Jan 2013




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Summary: <p>Why a red t-shirt is the same as a red bum, how a poor sense of smell affects your love life, and going "Facebook official": how the social network generation navigate the relationship minefield.</p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness201301/PAP-2013-01.mp3">Download the MP3</a></p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&amp;refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ybarUxWiF90/UQ78LPw-BmI/AAAAAAAABew/OCXtigOj7vw/s400-Ic42/Kristen_Stewart_Pink_by_BELLA801.jpg"><br> <p><i>It must be that time of the month for Kristen Stewart: new research shows that three quarters of women wearing pink or red are currently ovulating, making a pink dress almost as good an indicator of fertility as a chimpanzee's pink bum.</i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b></p><p>Beall, A. T., &amp; Tracy, J. L. (in press). Women more likely to wear red or pink at peak fertility. <span style="font-style: italic;">Psychological Science</span>. <a href="http://ubc-emotionlab.ca/wp-content/files_mf/bealltracyinpresspsychsci.pdf">Read paper [pdf]</a></p><p>Croy, I., Bojanowskia, V., &amp; Hummela, T. (2013). Men without a sense of smell exhibit a strongly reduced number of sexual relationships, women exhibit reduced partnership security – A reanalysis of previously published data. <span style="font-style: italic;">Biological Psychology, 92</span>(2), 292-924. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.11.008">Read summary</a></p><p>Fox, J., Warber, K. M., &amp; Makstaller, D. C. (in press). The role of Facebook in romantic relationship development: An exploration of Knapp’s relational stage model. <span style="font-style: italic;">Journal of Social and Personal Relationships</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407512468370">Read summary</a></p>