Men's preferences for women's femininity in dynamic cross-modal stimuli.

ABSTRACT: Men generally prefer feminine women's faces and voices over masculine women's faces and voices, and these cross-modal preferences are positively correlated. Men's preferences for female facial and vocal femininity have typically been investigated independently by presenting soundless still images separately from audio-only vocal recordings. For the first time ever, we presented men with short video clips in which dynamic faces and voices were simultaneously manipulated in femininity/masculinity. Men preferred feminine men's faces over masculine men's faces, and preferred masculine men's voices over feminine men's voices. We found that men preferred feminine women's faces and voices over masculine women's faces and voices. Men's attractiveness ratings of both feminine and masculine faces we

SUBMITTER: O'Connor JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3729951 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature