The influence of male voice pitch on women's perceptions of relationship investment

• DOI: 10.1556/jep.10.2012.1.1
• Publication Date: 2012-03-28T01:16:11Z
• Authors: J. J. M. O'Connor; P. J. Fraccaro; David R. Feinberg
• Keywords: Investment

The degree to which men invest financial resources, time, and effort into pursuing maintaining relationships may be perceived by women as a cue that man's suitability father mate. Women's mate preferences are also influenced cues underlying heritable quality, such an attractive, masculine voice. Relatively more able provide benefits offspring, but masculinity is associated with decreased investment in offspring. Both individual differences women's for voices attributions of negative personality traits suggests somewhat aware the associations between men's physical relationship/parental investment. In current study, we found general, per- ceived feminized significantly likely time effort, finan- cially generous romantic partners. We voice pitch long-term, not short-term relationship context, were positively related ceptions male generosity relationships. These perceptions represent adaptive heuristic aids selecting long-term mates