Vocal Cues to Male Physical Formidability.

ABSTRACT: Animal vocalizations convey important information about the emitter, including sex, age, biological quality, and emotional state. Early on, Darwin proposed that sex differences in auditory signals and vocalizations were driven by sexual selection mechanisms. In humans, studies on the association between male voice attributes and physical formidability have thus far reported mixed results. Hence, with a view to furthering our understanding of the role of human voice in advertising physical formidability, we sought to identify acoustic attributes of male voices associated with physical formidability proxies. Mean fundamental frequency (F ₀), formant dispersion (D _f ), formant position (P _f ), and vocal tract length (VTL</

SUBMITTER: Mailhos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9294471 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature