Sex hormones and finger length: What does 2D:4D indicate?

By David A. Putz, S. Gaulin, R. Sporter, D. Mcburney. 2004

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Mating context and menstrual phase affect women's preferences for male voice pitch (2005, methodology): “To create more ecologically valid stimuli for female raters than the stimuli used in previous studies (Collins, 2000: vowel recitation; Oguchi & Kikuchi, 1997: sentence reading), male participants were recorded attempting to attract a female in a protocol similar to that of Simpson, Gangestad, Chris”
Hot Topics and Popular Papers in Evolutionary Psychology: Analyses of Title Words and Citation Counts in Evolution and Human Behavior, 1979 – 2008 (2009, background): “ratios as markers of in-utero androgen exposure (see Putz, Gaulin, Sporter, and McBurney, 2004, for a review).”
Second-to-fourth digit ratio related to verbal and numerical intelligence and the big five (2005, background): “Indeed, Putz et al. (2004) reported in their overview one study that found a correlation between verbal fluency, an index of verbal intelligence, and 2D:4D, but only in men.”
Handgrip strength predicts sexual behavior, body morphology, and aggression in male college students (2007, neutral): “Considering that the research on 2D:4D often yields inconsistent results (Bailey & Hurd, 2005; Benderlioglu & Nelson, 2004; Lippa, 2006; Millet & Dewitte, 2006; Moore, Quinter, & Freeman, 2005; Putz, Gaulin, Sporter, & McBurney, 2004; Rahman, Korhonen, & Aslam, 2005), HGS may serve as a useful sup”