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David R. Feinberg

David R. Feinberg

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Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
10773
World Ranking
5639
National Ranking
386

Overview

David R. Feinberg is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and specializes primarily in psychology, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research spans multiple interconnected topics including:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Feinberg's recent publications demonstrate a broad range of interests and collaboration. Selected papers include:

  • "Do voices carry valid information about a speaker's personality?" (2021, Journal of Research in Personality)
  • "The role of valence, dominance, and pitch in perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents' voices" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "Assortative mate preferences for height across short-term and long-term relationship contexts in a cross-cultural sample" (2022, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "VoiceLab: Software for Fully Reproducible Automated Voice Analysis" (2022, Interspeech 2022)
  • "Voice Lab Software" (2020, Arabixiv [OSF Preprints])

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Feinberg include:

  • Benedict C. Jones
  • Victor Kenji Medeiros Shiramizu
  • Anthony J. Lee
  • Franck Mauconduit
  • An T. Vu

Publication venues where Feinberg most often publishes are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

  • Manipulations of fundamental and formant frequencies influence the attractiveness of human male voices

    D. R. Feinberg;Benedict Christopher Jones;A. C. Little;D. M. Burt

  • Facial appearance is a cue to oestrogen levels in women

    M. J. Law Smith;D. I. Perrett;B. C. Jones;R. E. Cornwell

  • Menstrual cycle, trait estrogen level, and masculinity preferences in the human voice.

    D.R. Feinberg;B.C. Jones;B.C. Jones;M.J. Law Smith;F.R. Moore

  • Voice pitch influences voting behavior

    Cara C. Tigue;Diana J. Borak;Jillian J.M. O'Connor;Charles Schandl

  • Correlated preferences for facial masculinity and ideal or actual partner's masculinity

    Lisa M DeBruine;Benedict C Jones;Anthony C Little;Lynda G Boothroyd

  • Voice pitch predicts reproductive success in male hunter-gatherers

    C.L Apicella;D.R Feinberg;F.W Marlowe

  • Commitment to relationships and preferences for femininity and apparent health in faces are strongest on days of the menstrual cycle when progesterone level is high.

    B.C. Jones;A.C. Little;L.G. Boothroyd;L.M. Debruine

  • Raised salivary testosterone in women is associated with increased attraction to masculine faces.

    Lisa Welling;Benedict Christopher Jones;Lisa Marie Debruine;C. A. Conway

  • Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferences.

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;David I. Perrett;Anthony C. Little

  • Menstrual cycle, pregnancy and oral contraceptive use alter attraction to apparent health in faces

    Benedict C. Jones;D. I. Perrett;A. C. Little;L. Boothroyd

  • The role of femininity and averageness of voice pitch in aesthetic judgments of women's voices.

    David R. Feinberg;Lisa DeBruine;Benedict Christopher Jones;David I. Perrett

  • Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity

    David R. Feinberg;Lisa M. DeBruine;Benedict C. Jones;Anthony C. Little

  • A domain-specific opposite-sex bias in human preferences for manipulated voice pitch.

    Benedict C. Jones;David R. Feinberg;Lisa M. DeBruine;Anthony C. Little

  • Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Julie C. Main;Anthony C. Little

  • Symmetry Is Related to Sexual Dimorphism in Faces: Data Across Culture and Species

    Anthony Charles Little;Benedict Christopher Jones;C. Waitt;Bernard Paul Tiddeman

  • To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Jessica K. Flake;Marco Tullio Liuzza

  • The voice and face of woman: One ornament that signals quality?

    David R. Feinberg;Benedict C. Jones;Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Lisa M. DeBruine;Fhionna R. Moore

  • Vocal indicators of body size in men and women: a meta-analysis

    Katarzyna Pisanski;Paul J. Fraccaro;Cara C. Tigue;Jillian J.M. O'Connor

  • Integrating gaze direction and expression in preferences for attractive faces

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Lisa M. DeBruine;Anthony C. Little;Claire A. Conway

  • Voice pitch alters mate-choice-relevant perception in hunter–gatherers

    Coren L Apicella;David R Feinberg

  • Social transmission of face preferences among humans

    Benedict Christopher Jones;Lisa Marie Debruine;Anthony C. Little;Robert P. Burriss

Frequent Co-Authors

Benedict C. Jones
Benedict C. Jones University of Strathclyde
Lisa M. DeBruine
Lisa M. DeBruine University of Glasgow
Anthony C. Little
Anthony C. Little University of Bath
Katarzyna Pisanski
Katarzyna Pisanski French National Centre for Scientific Research
David I. Perrett
David I. Perrett University of St Andrews
Lisa L. M. Welling
Lisa L. M. Welling Oakland University
Coren L. Apicella
Coren L. Apicella University of Pennsylvania
Ian S. Penton-Voak
Ian S. Penton-Voak University of Bristol
S. Craig Roberts
S. Craig Roberts University of Stirling
Bernhard Fink
Bernhard Fink University of Vienna

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