Summary: <p>Beauty Wars - how competition between women for the best partner can affect men’s preferences. Also this month, we find out how makeup use changes over the menstrual cycle and whether more curvaceous women are worse at spotting a bad boy. </p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness200907/PAP-2009-07.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&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lUhkIXTDOB8/U2DpWpDvAEI/AAAAAAAAA_g/6ZB_03dIydM/s1600/makeup.jpg"><br> <p><i>That time of the month? New research suggests that women spend more time on their appearance when ovulating.</i></p><b>The articles covered in the show: </b><p>Röder, S., Brewer, G., & Fink, B. (2009). Menstrual cycle shifts in women’s self-perception and motivation: a daily report method. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Individual Differences, 47</span>(6), 616-619. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.05.019">Read summary</a></p><p>Fisher, M., & Cox, A. (2009). The influence of female attractiveness on competitor derogation. <span style="font-style: italic;">Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7</span>(2), 141-155. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/JEP.7.2009.2.3">Read summary</a></p><p>Smith, F. G., Jones, B. C., Welling, L. L. W., Little, A. C., Vukovic, J., Main, J. C., et al. (2009). Waist-hip ratio predicts women's preferences for masculine male faces, but not perceptions of men's trustworthiness. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Individual Differences, 47</span>(5), 476-480. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.022">Read summary</a></p>
