Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women’s preferences for masculine men’s voices

Masculine physical traits may signal men’s underlying health and are associated with indices of men’s reproductive fitness. Here we show that preferences for low (i.e. masculine) pitch in men’s voices are positively related to self-rated attractiveness among women who are not using hormonal contraceptives. This relationship between masculinity preferences and self-rated attractiveness was evident when women judged the attractiveness of men’s …