A5027794172- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Music and Audio Processing
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Media Influence and Health
- Gender Studies in Language
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
McMaster University
2012-2015
University of Aberdeen
2010-2011
Male dominance rank, physical strength, indices of reproductive success, and potential are correlated with masculine characteristics in many animal species, including humans. Accordingly, men generally perceive masculinized versions men's faces voices to be more dominant than feminized versions. Less incur greater costs when they incorrectly the rivals. Consequently, it may adaptive for less particularly sensitive cues other men. Because height is a reliable index dominance, we investigated...
Sexually dimorphic physical traits are important for mate choice and preference in many species, including humans. Several previous studies have observed that women's preferences cues of male masculinity different domains (e.g., visual vocal) correlated. These correlations demonstrate systematic, rather than arbitrary, variation masculine men consistent with the proposal sexually reflect a common underlying aspect quality. Here we present evidence similar correlation between men's femininity...
Although humans can raise and lower their voice pitch, it is not known whether such alterations function to increase the likelihood of attracting preferred mates. Because men find higher-pitched women's voices more attractive, pitch with which women speak may depend on strength attraction those men. Here, we measured when left voicemail messages for masculinized feminized versions a prototypical male face. We found that difference in between these two conditions positively correlated...
Listeners associate low voice pitch (fundamental frequency and/or harmonics) and formants (vocal-tract resonances) with large body size. Although reliably predict size within sexes, does not in groups of same-sex adults. Voice has therefore long been hypothesized to confound within-sex assessment. Here we performed a knockout test this hypothesis using whispered 3-formant sine-wave speech devoid pitch. estimated the relative men above-chance accuracy from voiced, whispered, speech....
Abstract Vocal and facial masculinity are cues to underlying testosterone in men influence women’s mate preferences. Consistent with the proposal that vocal signal common information about men, prior work has revealed correlated female preferences for male masculinity. Previous studies have assessed by presenting faces voices independently using static face stimuli. By contrast, here we presented women short video clips which were simultaneously manipulated We found who preferred masculine...
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...
Abstract Although most research on human facial attractiveness has used front-facing two-dimensional (2D) images, our primary visual experience with faces is in three dimensions. Because face coding the system viewpoint-specific, may be processed differently from different angles. Thus, results perceptual studies using 2D images not generalizable to other viewpoints. We rotating three-dimensional (3D) of women's test whether men's ratings and 3D differed. found a significant positive...
Men generally prefer feminine women's faces and voices over masculine voices, these cross-modal preferences are positively correlated. Men's for female facial vocal femininity have typically been investigated independently by presenting soundless still images separately from audio-only recordings. For the first time ever, we presented men with short video clips in which dynamic were simultaneously manipulated femininity/masculinity. preferred men's faces, voices. We found that attractiveness...
Recent research suggests that men may possess adaptations evolved to counter strategic variation in women's preferences for masculine men. For example, masculine, dominant are stronger during the fertile phase of menstrual cycle than at other times and demonstrate increased sensitivity facial cues male dominance when their partners ovulating. Such men's perceptions promote efficient allocation mate guarding effort (i.e., allocate more response situations where women show particularly strong...
AbstractHumans are better able to discriminate among human faces than of other species. This difference in perceptual discrimination is known as the "other-species effect". Models perception have posited that ultimate functional significance other-species effect a higher capability within an organism's most familiar and salient stimulus set while attenuating ability amongst unfamiliar stimuli. Here, participants made masculinity judgements macaque manipulated based on either or sexual...