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Psychologists have told how a woman behaves during ovulation
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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Experts have long debated whether men can detect the period when a woman is most ready to conceive. Does she become more attractive during and shortly before ovulation?
Does her voice get louder or does she start to smell a little different? According to recent research, Der Spiegel reports that signs of ovulation in women are reflected not only in their appearance, but also in their behavior.
"For several decades, scientists have assumed that evolution has provided the fair half of humanity with a kind of weapon in the eternal struggle of the sexes: the point is that, unlike female animals, a woman can, with varying degrees of success, hide the onset of her period of greatest fertility." It turns out, the author writes, that in order to experience the joy of fatherhood, a man must, just in case, show tenderness and sensitivity to his partner throughout the month.
Researchers from the University of Bern have found that the onset of ovulation changes women's facial features. During the study, experts identified 178 distinctive features based on 25 photographs of women during and outside of ovulation using a computer program. Then, using the differences identified, photographs of other women from the database were changed to give their faces "ovulation features" regardless of the day of the cycle. Although the changes were not noticeable to the naked eye, most male respondents rated the faces of those women whose photographs had been processed as more attractive.
In addition, according to French scientists, during ovulation, women's movements become smoother and their gait slows down, which also attracts men.
"Women become more wasteful during ovulatory changes: they spend more money on dresses, dress more provocatively and spend more time on cosmetic procedures," the author recounts the results of a study conducted by scientists at Concordia University in Canada. At the same time, scientists agree that even if a woman is aware of the changes occurring in her body depending on the day of her cycle, she cannot influence them in any way.
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