Attractiveness and distinctiveness between speakers' voices in naturalistic speech and their faces are uncorrelated.

ABSTRACT: Facial attractiveness has been linked to the averageness (or typicality) of a face and, more tentatively, to a speaker's vocal attractiveness, via the 'honest signal' hypothesis, holding that attractiveness signals good genes. In four experiments, we assessed ratings for attractiveness and two common measures of distinctiveness ('distinctiveness-in-the-crowd', DITC and 'deviation-based distinctiveness', DEV) for faces and voices (simple vowels, or more naturalistic sentences) from 64 young adult speakers (32 female). Consistent and substantial negative correlations between attractiveness and DEV generally supported the averageness account of attractiveness, for both voices and faces. By contrast, and indicating that both measures of distinctiveness reflect different constructs, correlation

SUBMITTER: Zaske R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7813223 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature