I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men
A number of studies have found a disjunction between women’s attention to, and memory for, handsome men. Although women pay initial attention to handsome men, they do not remember those men later. The present study examines how ovulation might differentially affect these attentional and memory proce...
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| author | Anderson, Uriah S. Perea, Elaine F. Vaughn Becker, D. Shapiro, Jenessa R. Neuberg, Steven L. Kenrick, Douglas T. Ackerman, Joshua Maxwell |
| author2 | Sloan School of Management |
| author_facet | Sloan School of Management Anderson, Uriah S. Perea, Elaine F. Vaughn Becker, D. Shapiro, Jenessa R. Neuberg, Steven L. Kenrick, Douglas T. Ackerman, Joshua Maxwell |
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| description | A number of studies have found a disjunction between women’s attention to, and memory for, handsome men. Although women pay initial attention to handsome men, they do not remember those men later. The present study examines how ovulation might differentially affect these attentional and memory processes. We found that women near ovulation increased their visual attention to attractive men. However, this increased visual attention did not translate into better memory. Discussion focuses on possible explanations, in the context of an emerging body of findings on disjunctions between attention to, and memory for, other people. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1083002024-06-28T13:06:25Z I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men Anderson, Uriah S. Perea, Elaine F. Vaughn Becker, D. Shapiro, Jenessa R. Neuberg, Steven L. Kenrick, Douglas T. Ackerman, Joshua Maxwell Sloan School of Management Ackerman, Joshua Maxwell Ackerman, Joshua Maxwell A number of studies have found a disjunction between women’s attention to, and memory for, handsome men. Although women pay initial attention to handsome men, they do not remember those men later. The present study examines how ovulation might differentially affect these attentional and memory processes. We found that women near ovulation increased their visual attention to attractive men. However, this increased visual attention did not translate into better memory. Discussion focuses on possible explanations, in the context of an emerging body of findings on disjunctions between attention to, and memory for, other people. National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (R01MH064734) 2017-04-20T17:43:52Z 2017-04-20T17:43:52Z 2010-05 2010-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0022-1031 1096-0465 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108300 Anderson, Uriah S.; Perea, Elaine F.; Vaughn Becker, D.; Ackerman, Joshua M.; Shapiro, Jenessa R.; Neuberg, Steven L. and Kenrick, Douglas T. “I Only Have Eyes for You: Ovulation Redirects Attention (but Not Memory) to Attractive Men.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 46, no. 5 (September 2010): 804–808. © 2010 Elsevier Inc en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.04.015 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier Prof. Ackerman via Alex Caracuzzo |
| spellingShingle | Anderson, Uriah S. Perea, Elaine F. Vaughn Becker, D. Shapiro, Jenessa R. Neuberg, Steven L. Kenrick, Douglas T. Ackerman, Joshua Maxwell I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men |
| title | I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men |
| title_full | I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men |
| title_fullStr | I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men |
| title_full_unstemmed | I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men |
| title_short | I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men |
| title_sort | i only have eyes for you ovulation redirects attention but not memory to attractive men |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108300 |
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