by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 8, 2011 | Menstruation
Guest Post by Harriet Hall, M.D. When women live together, do their menstrual cycles tend to synchronize? It’s been a long time since I first heard that claim. I didn’t believe it, for a number of reasons. I had never observed it myself, I saw no plausible mechanism...
by Elizabeth Kissling | May 29, 2010 | Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
Ready to play Evo-Psych bingo, that is. I don’t know quite what else to do with a study like this: Women’s preferences for masculinity in male faces are highest during reproductive age range and lower around puberty and...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 18, 2009 | New Research
This is an interesting study, in a “Whoa! Somebody actually thought to do a study of that” kind of way. And that’s saying something, coming from someone who studies discourses of menstruation. Two economists designed a study to try to demonstrate...