I love evolutionary psychology trivia but for me it's kind of hard to meaningfully fit 0.13 standard deviation shift in preferences into my world model.

In the end we’re just improvements on the worm/tube plan, and we run things based on chemical soup that is mostly inside our bodies these days, but whose composition has a significant influence on our behavior. Thats why it’s great to have a neocortex, so we con at least be marginally in control of our decisions if we maintain a consistent effort to do so.

But yeah, in my empirical experience, moon phases, ovolatory cycles, hormone manipulation therapies… all have a gigantic impact on our base physiological and psychological state. I live in a place where the insects operate on a lunar phase, and the plants proactively change their operations in that rhythm to match. You can taste and see the difference in tree sap here based on the lunar phase, it becomes thicker, darker, and more bitter days in advance of the insect hatching.

Why would we think we are somehow a special exception from the web of life that created us?

Can we summarize this as "people get horny sometimes" and "ovulating people get horny"? Or is that too reductive?

Which only supports my belief that with the proliferation of contraception tying sex and long-term partnership together is becoming a useless anachronism

considering this is a review aggregating a bunch of small n studies from before we acknowledged the replication crisis in psychology, I'm going with "no"

It is OK! Don't forget we are animals first. Obviously we need that neocortex to keep decisions in check!

Women with higher testosterone levels prefer more risks.

For example: when women are starting dating and fell in love: their testosterone level go up for 2 months

In my experience it’s usually the other way around

>determined by hormones

>but when they're impulsive after drinking in a bar

Is alcohol hormones?

What is an "intellectual women"?

What is a "sexy women"?

Also, where are you from? Getting a very thirdy worldy "ESL" vibe from your post. Europe? USA? Canada? Australia? No?

I can assure you, where I am in Sweden, there are plenty of women who are intellectual and sexy.

Also, I have never ever in my life been attracted to some kind of bimbo "sexy" woman as often stereotyped. Especially the Kim Kardashian type, I feel it is a very african american style of woman.

Just like how some women like skinny men and some like burly ones.

I was hoping for chess moves, myself.

It probably feels a bit like before and after ejaculation for a man, just it happens way quicker for men. Pretty sure if you studied that you'd find mens preferences in women changes a lot as well.

PDFs are generally meant for printed paper, it's not you - it's the medium.

Under Firefox Focus I can read it if I manually zoom and scroll. Not ideal.