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Age at menarche predicts individual differences in
women’s preferences for masculinized male voices in adulthood. Personality and Individual Differences.
BC Jones, LG Boothroyd, DR Feinberg & LM DeBruine (in press).
Although researchers have suggested that adult women who experienced
early puberty may demonstrate particularly strong preferences for
masculine men, evidence for such an association is equivocal. Here we
show that adult women’s preferences for masculinized male voices (i.e.,
male voices with lowered pitch) are negatively associated with the age
at which they experienced first menses (i.e., age at menarche).
Moreover, this relationship was independent of women’s stated
preference for long- versus short-term relationships, suggesting that
the relationship does not necessarily reflect individual differences in
women’s preferred type of relationship. We discuss alternative
mechanisms for the relationship between early puberty and women’s
masculinity preferences, focusing on the possibility that girls who
experience early puberty might learn to associate masculinity with
desirable mates because of exposure to particularly masculine males
during adolescence. |
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