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The present study was performed to determine whether or not ovulating women show enhanced memory for, and better categorization of, straight and gay male faces when compared to that of menstruating women. Thirty undergraduate women were tested on two occasions, during ovulation and menstruation. On each occasion participants were presented with a series of straight and gay male faces. Following a ... read morefiller task, participants were presented with both the original and new faces, and asked to respond to whether or not they remembered having seen each face before, and whether they believed that male to be straight or gay. Both ovulating and menstruating women showed better memory for straight faces. The present work introduces judgments of targets' sexual orientations as a novel variable in the field of menstrual cycle research, and discusses future research considerations and directions pertaining to social perception across the menstrual cycle.read less
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