Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: economic evidence for human estrus?☆

Miller, Geoffrey F.; Tybur, Joshua M.; Jordan, Brent D.

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.06.002

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“…Asher, 2000; Schaller & Neuberg, 2008), cultural variability (Fincher, Thornhill, Murray & Schaller, in press;Gangestad, Haselton, & Buss, 2006;Schaller & Murray, in press), and behaviors ranging from conformity (Griskevicius, Goldstein, Mortenson, Cialdini, & Kenrick, 2006) to consumer spending (Griskevicius, Tybur, Sundie, Cialdini, Miller, & Kenrick, 2007;Miller, Tybur, & Jordan, 2007). Importantly, the adaptationist perspective has also proven useful in the study of emotions (see Cosmides & Tooby, 2000;Keltner, Haidt, & Shiota, 2006;Ohman & Mineka, 2001;Pinker, 1997).…”

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Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.

Tybur¹,

Lieberman²,

Griskevicius³

2009

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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What is the function of disgust? Whereas traditional models have suggested that disgust serves to protect the self or neutralize reminders of our animal nature, an evolutionary perspective suggests that disgust functions to solve 3 qualitatively different adaptive problems related to pathogen avoidance, mate choice, and social interaction. The authors investigated this 3-domain model of disgust across 4 studies and examined how sensitivity to these functional domains relates to individual differences in other psychological constructs. Consistent with their predictions, factor analyses demonstrated that disgust sensitivity partitions into domains related to pathogens, sexuality, and morality. Further, sensitivity to the 3 domains showed predictable differentiation based on sex, perceived vulnerability to disease, psychopathic tendencies, and Big 5 personality traits. In exploring these 3 domains of disgust, the authors introduce a new measure of disgust sensitivity. Appreciation of the functional heterogeneity of disgust has important implications for research on individual differences in disgust sensitivity, emotion, clinical impairments, and neuroscience.

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Section: An Adaptationist View Of Disgustmentioning

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Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.

Tybur¹,

Lieberman²,

Griskevicius³

2009

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…For example, in a laboratory task, ovulating women sketched an outfit to 8 wear to a party that was sexier and more revealing (Durante et al 2008). Parallel to making a greater effort to appear more alluring at high fertility, lap dancers at a gentlemen's club earn significantly more in tips near ovulation (Miller, Tybur and Jordan 2007). Consistent with the hormonal underpinnings of ovulatory effects, all ovulatory shift effects are -turned off‖ when women are using hormonal contraception (e.g., the pill, the patch, vaginal ring).…”

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Ovulation, Female Competition, and Product Choice: Hormonal Influences on Consumer Behavior

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Griskevicius²,

Hill³

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Recent research shows that women experience nonconscious shifts across different phases of the monthly ovulatory cycle. For example, women at peak fertility (near ovulation) are attracted to different kinds of men and show increased desire to attend social gatherings. Building on the evolutionary logic behind such effects, we examined how, why, and when hormonal fluctuations associated with ovulation influenced women's product choices. In three experiments, we show that at peak fertility women nonconsciously choose products that enhance appearance (e.g., choosing sexy rather than more conservative clothing). This hormonally regulated effect appears to be driven by a desire to outdo attractive rival women. Consequently, minimizing the salience of attractive women who are potential rivals suppresses the ovulatory effect on product choice. This research provides some of the first evidence of how, why, and when consumer behavior is influenced by hormonal factors.

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“…[36][37][38][39][40][41] While only a crude estimate, this method has the advantage of simplifying optimal scheduling of an exercise intervention based on a brief screening interview rather than hormonal measurement, but future studies should measure hormones directly to ensure that women's selfreported cycle day and hormonally estimated cycle day result in similar phase designations. However, the differences observed in this study were between women experiencing menses and those not experiencing menses and are, therefore, not contingent on distinguishing between late follicular and luteal phases through hormonal verification.…”

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“…We estimated the cycle phase of the women by conservatively dividing the menstrual cycle into three phases using published procedures [36][37][38][39][40][41] : early follicular (i.e., menses: days 1-5), late follicular (days 9-15), and luteal (days 18-34). All women in days 6, 7, 8, 16, or 17 or who had > 35 days since their last menstrual period were excluded from analyses.…”

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Menstrual Cycle Effects on Perceived Exertion and Pain During Exercise Among Sedentary Women

Hooper

Bryan²,

Eaton³

2011

Journal of Women's Health

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Background: Increasing cardiovascular fitness through exercise participation among sedentary people is important for decreasing all-cause mortality. From an intervention perspective, identifying modifiable factors that maximize the successful initiation of exercise is of utmost importance. For women, cyclic hormonal variations can influence aspects of health and health behaviors, from smoking cessation efficacy to physiological responses to exercise. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of menstrual cycle phase and hormonal contraceptive (HC) use on subjective response to an initial bout of moderate intensity exercise among previously sedentary women (n ¼ 117). Methods: Women completed a treadmill exercise challenge session at 65% of their previously determined maximum oxygen consumption (Vo 2 max) during the early follicular, late follicular, or luteal phase. Participants reported ratings of perceived exertion and pain using Borg's Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and CR10 scales at 10, 20, and 30 minutes during the exercise session.Results: There was a significant menstrual phaseÂbirth control interaction on change in RPE [F(2, 111) ¼ 3.75, p < 0.05] and change in perceived pain [F(2, 110) ¼ 3.31, p < 0.05]. Women in the early follicular phase who were not using HCs had significantly greater increases in RPE and increases in pain compared with women in the late follicular and luteal phases. Conclusions: Our results indicate that the use of HC and cycle phase influence sedentary women's subjective response to exercise. These results have important implications for the timing of exercise interventions aimed at increasing exercise among sedentary women.

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Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: economic evidence for human estrus?☆

Cited by 250 publications

References 37 publications

Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.

Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.

Ovulation, Female Competition, and Product Choice: Hormonal Influences on Consumer Behavior

Menstrual Cycle Effects on Perceived Exertion and Pain During Exercise Among Sedentary Women

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