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.
O'Connor JJM, Feinberg DR, Fraccaro PJ, Borak DJ, Tigue CC, Re DE, Jones BC, Little AC, Tiddeman, BP. Female preferences for male vocal and facial masculinity in videos. Ethology.118(4), 321–330 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
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 & Feinberg DR. The influence of facial masculinity and voice pitch on jealousy and perceptions of intrasexual rivalry. Personality and Individual DIfferences. 52(3): 369-373. pdf
MJ Law Smith, DK Deady, FR Moore, BC Jones, RE Cornwell, MR Stirrat, J Lawson, DR Feinberg & DI Perrett (2012). Maternal tendencies in women are associated with estrogen levels and facial femininity. Hormones and Behavior. 61(1):12-16 pdf