Research Interests
- Understanding social relationships
- Sexual desire, behaviour and experience
- Mate choice and romantic relationships
- Endocrinological interactions and ovulatory cycle shifts
- Open Science
Current Projects
- Moderators of sexual desire
- Sexuality in romantic relationships and dyadic interactions
- Ovulatory cycle shifts and psychological effects of hormonal contraception
- Differential Psychology
- Online research (psytests.de, formr.org)
Short CV
- since 10/2018 PhD student at the University of Goettingen, Department of Biological Personality Psychology (Prof. Dr. Penke)
- 10/2016 - 05/2018 MSc Psychology, University of Marburg
MSc thesis: "Gender, Sexual Desire and Testosterone –
A pilot ecological momentary assessment study of the associations of
gender, strength of sexual desire and testosterone"
- 10/2012 - 09/2016 BSc Psychology, University of Marburg
BSc thesis: "The Association of Stress and Sexual Behaviour and Sexual Experience"
Publications
- Schleifenbaum, L., Driebe, J. C., Gerlach, T. M., Penke, L. & Arslan, R. C. (in press). Women feel more attractive before ovulation: Evidence from a large-scale online diary study. Evolutionary Human Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.44.
