A domain-specific opposite-sex bias in human preferences for manipulated voice pitch.

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Candidate Voice Pitch Influences Election Outcomes (2016, background): “For women, higher-pitched voices are perceived as more attractive (Collins & Missing, 2003; Feinberg et al., 2005b; Puts et al., 2011), whereas lower-pitched female voices are perceived as more dominant (Borkowska & Pawlowski, 2011; Jones et al., 2010).”
Vocal masculinity is a robust dominance signal in men (2010, background): “…voice recordings experimentally lowered (masculinized) in F0 and Df are rated as more dominant by men (Feinberg et al. 2006; Puts et al. 2006, 2007; Jones et al. 2010) and older, larger, and more dominant by women (Feinberg et al. 2005; Feinberg et al. 2006) than the same voices with these…”
Intrasexual competition among women: Vocal femininity affects perceptions of attractiveness and flirtatiousness (2011, result): “This paper replicates previous findings (Apicella & Feinberg, 2009; Feinberg et al., 2008; Jones et al., 2008, 2010) that feminized female voices are more attractive to men than are masculinized voices.”
Voice pitch influences voting behavior (2012, methodology): “Jones et al. (2010) demonstrated that both men and women are equally sensitive to the relationship between voice pitch and male dominance.”