Martha Kent McClintock (born February 22, 1947)[1] is an American psychologist best known for her research on human pheromones and her theory of menstrual synchrony.
[2] She is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology at the University of Chicago and is the Founder and past Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology.
In 1982, she has received the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology for original and broadly conceived research on the social regulation of reproductive function.
She studies pheromones, sexual behavior, fertility and reproductive hormones from experiments on animals and parallel clinical processes in humans.
[10] McClintock believes that being able to control the ratio of male and female offspring in a litter can potentially lead to an improved understanding of the reasons that cause miscarriage.