menstral cycles

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[from Jeff Vancouver 960620.1700]

And now for something completely different.

I grad student of mine is working on the issue of influence among
autonomous control systems (i.e., humans) and wanted to know how you all
might explain the McClintock effect. The McClintock effect is the effect
of the "menstrual synchrony" of female friends and roommates. Somehow
the sweat that woman secret can influence the menstrual cycles of other
woman. The result is, apparently, new reference values for menstrual
timing. Any ideas of how this might be happening?

Later

Jeff

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[from Joel Judd]

Jeff Vancouver (960620):

The McClintock effect is the effect
of the "menstrual synchrony" of female friends and roommates.

In case no one else mentions it, this has come up before. It's been a
couple of years or more, but the discussion should be in the archives.

Joel

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[from Jeff Vancouver 960624.16:30]

THanks for all the comments on Menstrual cycle synchronicity. I sent my
student to the archives and to model the ECUs. I fear it is too
intractable and narrow for our purposes, but I will keep you posted.

Later

Jeff

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_________________________________________________________________________
                           Jeffrey B. Vancouver
Assistant Professor Phone: (212)998-7816
Department of Psychology Fax: (212)995-4018
New York University e-mail: jeffv@xp.psych.nyu.edu
6 Washington Pl., Rm 572
New York, NY 10003