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Are more feminine women attracted to more masculine men?

Eric Barker
October 6, 2011

Women with higher pitched voices are more attracted to men with deep voices. Along the same lines, prior studies have shown women with desirable waist-to-hip ratios and more beautiful faces find masculine faces more attractive:

Previous studies have found that indices of womenâs attractiveness predict variation in their mate preferences. For example, objective measures of womenâs attractiveness (waist-hip ratio and other-rated facial attractiveness) are positively related to the strength of their preferences for masculinity in menâs faces. Here, we examined whether womenâs preferences for masculine characteristics in menâs voices were related to their own vocal characteristics. We found that womenâs preferences for menâs voices with lowered (i.e., masculinized) pitch versus raised (i.e., feminized) pitch were positively associated with womenâs own average voice pitch. Because voice pitch is positively correlated with many indices of womenâs attractiveness, our findings suggest that the attractiveness of the perceiver predicts variation in womenâs preferences for masculinity in menâs voices. Such attractiveness-contingent preferences may be adaptive if attractive women are more likely to be able to attract and/or retain masculine mates than relatively unattractive women are. Interestingly, the attractiveness-contingent masculinity preferences observed in our study appeared to be modulated by the semantic content of the judged speech (positively valenced vs. negatively valenced speech), suggesting that attractiveness-contingent individual differences in masculinity preferences do not necessarily reflect variation in responses to simple physical properties of the stimulus.

Source: “Womenâs own voice pitch predicts their preferences for masculinity in menâs voices” from Behavioral Ecology (2010) 21 (4):767-772.

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Author Eric Barker
Date October 6, 2011 7:16 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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