Do men with more masculine voices have better immunocompetence?

Sensory Exploitation, Sexual Dimorphism, and Human Voice Pitch

“…The possibility that voice pitch is a cue of men's immunocompetence, previously discarded [2], might also be re-evaluated, although evidence for an association between men's immunocompetence and voice pitch is equivocal [14,15] In summary, some empirical work challenges the common assumption that selection for low male voice pitch occurs because it is a valid cue of formidability. We suggest that sensory exploitation is a more parsimonious explanation for the marked difference in men's and women's voice pitch.…”

No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women

“…Second, it suppresses bacterial activity (direct effect on bacterial virulence). Recent work investigating potential relationships between vocal characteristics and health in humans has also used SIgA as a marker of susceptibility to infectious illnesses (Arnocky et al, 2018). The samples in our study are considerably larger than the largest used in published tests for correlations between women's facial attractiveness and health-questionnaire responses (N=203, Thornhill & Gangestad, 2006) or biomarkers of women's health (N=96, Han et al, 2016).…”

Ovulation, sex hormones, and women’s mating psychology

“…Many researchers have questioned the existence of such cues [e.g., 49,81] and evidence for their existence in men is arguably equivocal [10,[82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89]. Moreover, some researchers have argued that an individual's typical or current physical condition need not necessarily be related to such cues [90,91], making it a difficult proposal to assess empirically in humans.…”