Welcome to the Voice Research Laboratory website. This is the website for the Voice Research Laboratory run by Professor David R. Feinberg at the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, & Behaviour at McMaster University. The Voice Research Laboratory is committed to discovering how we use voices and faces to perceive the world.
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Congratulations to Jillian O'Connor who had her 3rd, 1st authored manuscript accepted for publication yesterday at Ethology.
Congratulations to Jillian O'Connor who had her 2nd, 1st authored manuscript accepted for publication today at Personality and Individual Differences.
Click here to read more info about the new article.
Congratulations to Cara Tigue, whose first first-authored paper was accepted for publication at Evolution and Human Behavior. See here for more details on the article.
Congratulations to Cara Tigue and Jillian O'Connor, who were both awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships.
Congratulations to Katerzyna Pisanski and Paul Fraccaro, who were both awarded SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships.
Congratulations to Jillian O'Connor who had her first paper "Voice pitch influences perceptions of sexual infidelity" accepted for publication to the journal Evolutionary Psychology.
Re DE, O'Connor JJM, Bennet PJ, Feinberg DR. Preferences for very low and very high voice pitch in humans. PLoS One. 7(3): e32719. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032719 pdf
D Smith, BC Jones, DR Feinberg & K Allan. A modulatory effect of male voice pitch on long-term memory in women: Evidence of adaptation for mate choice. Memory & Cognition. 40(1): 135-144. pdf
O'Connor JJM, Fraccaro PJ, Feinberg DR. The influence of male voice pitch on women's perceptions of relationship investment. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 2012, 1-13, DOI: 10.1556/JEP.10.2012.1.1 pdf
Feinberg DR, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, LIttle AC, O'Connor JJM, Tigue CC. Women's self-perceived health and attractiveness predict their male vocal masculinity preferences in different directions across short- and long-term relationship contexts. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 66:413-418 pdf
Tigue CC, Borak DJ, O'Connor JJM, Schandl C, Feinberg DR. Voice pitch influences voting behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior. 33(3) 210-216 pdf