Mating context and menstrual phase affect women's preferences for male voice pitch

By D. Puts. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics

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Vocal and Physiological Changes in Response to the Physical Attractiveness of Conversational Partners (2010, background): “The tendency to associate a lower-pitched voice as sounding more attractive for male speakers has been well-documented (Feinberg et al. 2005; Puts 2005; Riding et al. 2006) and there appears to be some evidence for a cross-cultural preference for deeper-pitched male voices (Apicella et al. 2007;…”
The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “Puts (2005) has shown, however, that men with low pitch voices tend to be preferred as short-term mates when women are in the ovulatory phase of their menstrual cycle.”
Vocal masculinity is a robust dominance signal in men (2010, background): “Women’s preferences for masculinity are affected by multiple factors, including but not limited to menstrual cycle phase (Grammer 1993; Frost 1994; Penton-Voak et al. 1999; Penton-Voak and Perrett 2000; Johnston et al. 2001; Gangestad et al. 2004; Puts 2005; Feinberg et al. 2006; Puts 2006; Little e”
Human preference for masculinity differs according to context in faces, bodies, voices, and smell (2011, background): “Studies have shown that women tend to prefer more masculine faces (Little et al. 2002), bodies (Pawlowski and Jasienska 2005), and voices (Puts 2005) when judging for a short-term than for a long-term relationship.”
Men's voices as dominance signals: vocal fundamental and formant frequencies influence dominance attributions among men (2007, background): “The evolutionary reasons for these sex differences are unclear, but several lines of evidence indicate that sexual selection specifically shaped men's voices (Collins, 2000; Feinberg et al., 2006; Feinberg, Jones, Little, Burt, & Perrett, 2005; Puts, 2005; Puts, Gaulin, & Verdolini, 2006).”
A domain-specific opposite-sex bias in human preferences for manipulated voice pitch. (2010, background): “Other studies have reported that voice pitch itself is negatively correlated with indices of men’s reproductive success/potential (Puts 2005; Apicella et al. 2007) and is positively correlated with women’s fertility during the menstrual cycle (Bryant & Haselton 2009) and with women’s facial feminini”
Cross-Cultural Variation in Mate Preferences for Averageness, Symmetry, Body Size, and Masculinity (2013, background): “…negatively with age of first menses (Jones et al., 2010) and are strongest during the fertile phase of a woman’s menstrual cycle (Feinberg et al., 2006; Puts, 2005) and among naturally cycling women as opposed to women taking oral contraceptives (Feinberg, DeBruine, Jones, & Perrett, 2008).”
Adaptations to Ovulation (2005, background): “When rating men’s short-term attractiveness, women find masculine (deep) voices more attractive at mid-cycle than they do at other times (Puts, 2005).”
Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, neutral): “All these methods require considerable A u t h o r ' s p e r s o n a l”
The effects of facial hair manipulation on female perceptions of attractiveness, masculinity, and dominance in male faces (2008, background): “Several studies have now demonstrated that female preferences towards masculinity are not fixed, but instead fluctuate with fertility level, more masculine characteristics being preferred during the most fertile phase (e.g. Pawlowski & Jasienska, 2005; Penton-Voak & Perrett, 2000; Puts, 2005).”
Men's masculinity and attractiveness predict their female partners' reported orgasm frequency and timing (2011, methodology): “Using specialist software, we produced nine sexually dimorphic measures from distances between facial landmarks and used these measures to calculate a composite index of facial masculinity (Burriss, Roberts, Welling, Puts, & Little, in press). We also assessed horizontal and vertical asymmetry follo”
How valid are assessments of conception probability in ovulatory cycle research? Evaluations, recommendations, and theoretical implications (2016, neutral): “Evaluations, 015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.09.001 The backwardmethod counts days from next menstrual onset backward to the day of assessment (e.g., Puts, 2005).”
Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine men's voices (2008, background): “Additionally, masculine physical traits are also associated with indices of men’s reproductive potential (Hughes, Dispenza, & Gallup, 2004; Puts, 2005; Rhodes, Simmons, & Peters, 2005) and, in natural fertility populations, men’s reproductive fitness (Apicella, Feinberg, & Marlowe, 2007).”
The contribution of source–filter theory to mammal vocal communication research (2010, background): “…a low F0 have a higher reproductive success, and likewise human men with a low F0 report more sexual partners, and are more attractive to women, than males with higher F0 (fallow deer: Vannoni & McElligott, 2008; humans: Puts 2005; Apicella, Feinberg & Marlowe, 2007; Apicella & Feinberg, 2009).”
Intrasexual competition among women: Vocal femininity affects perceptions of attractiveness and flirtatiousness (2011, neutral): “…or threat to win mates: Evans, Neave, & Wakelin, 2006; Hodges-Simeon, Gaulin, & Puts, 2010; Puts, Gaulin, & Verdolini, 2006; Puts, Hodges, Cardenas, & Gaulin, 2007; Wolff & Puts, 2010) and female choice (Collins, 2000; Evans et al., 2006; Feinberg, Jones, Little, Burt, & Perrett, 2005; Puts, 2005).”
Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men's traits (2013, methodology): “We utilized ratings of short-term, sexual attractiveness, rather than attractiveness for a long-term, committed relationship, because masculine traits more strongly affect short-term, sexual attractiveness (e.g., Frederick & Haselton, 2007; Puts, 2005), and because we expected sexual attractiveness ”
Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “Women also prefer men who are somewhat more masculine than average in height (Pawlowski & Jasienska, 2005), body build (Frederick & Haselton, 2007; Horvath, 1981), voice (Feinberg et al., 2005; Puts, 2005), and perhaps face (e.”