Revisiting the relation between oral contraceptive use and attentional engagement in everyday life: The role of formulation

Alyssa C Smith, Daniel Smilek · 2026

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Alyssa Smith and Daniel Smilek wrote this 2026 PLOS ONE research article in psychology. It revisits whether taking oral contraceptives relates to how engaged people feel in daily life, how absorbed they are in what they are doing. The authors give formulation a central role: which pill recipe a person takes.

Treating all oral contraceptives as one thing may have blurred earlier findings, since formulations differ in hormones and doses. A fresh look separated by formulation can reconcile conflicting past results. Psychologists studying hormones and cognition, and clinicians counseling patients about side effects, are the readers for this refinement.

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CREATORAlyssa C Smith, Daniel Smilek
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE62218
LICENSECC_BY
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEPLOS

Source: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0359652

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