#1284 Lars Penke: Do Women's Mate Preferences Change During Ovulation?

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returned guest, Dr. Lars Penke. He's full professor biological personality psychology at the University of Göttingen. And today we're going to explore the ovulatory shift hypothesis, what it is and uh studies that Dr. Penka and his collaborators have been doing over the past few years to test these hypotheses and the several different predictions that come out of it. So Dr. Penka, welcome back to the show. It's great to see you again. It's a pleasure to be here again.

So let's start. I I mean I I think that we've touched uh at least briefly on these hypotheses in our first conversation, but I mean just for people who might not be familiar with it and perhaps to uh update some of what's been going on surrounding these hypotheses in recent years. What is it really about and what are

The main predictions that people have been putting forth. uh that supposedly derive from it. Yeah, so the ovulatory sh cycle shift hypothesis uh concerns the female ovulatory cycle. So women emit

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