High testosterone levels predict low voice pitchamong men

Dabbs, James M.; Mallinger, Alison

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(98)00272-4

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“…In line with our hypotheses and previous research (Dabbs and Mallinger, 1999;Evans et al, 2008;Puts et al, 2012), speakers' salivary testosterone was negatively correlated with their voice F0, but was not a significant predictor of ΔF (Evans et al, 2008;Puts et al, 2012;though see Bruckert et al, 2006 reporting r = −.41).…”

Section: Physiological Characteristics and Voice Cuessupporting

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“…In particular, men's individual mean F0 has been found to negatively correlate with circulating levels of testosterone (Dabbs and Mallinger, 1999;Evans et al, 2008;Puts et al, 2012) and higher mating success rates (Apicella et al, 2007;Hodges-Simeon et al, 2011), while at least one study (Bruckert et al, 2006) has also reported a negative relationship between ΔF and testosterone, though more recent studies have failed to replicate these findings (Evans et al, 2008;Puts et al, 2012).…”

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What makes a voice masculine: Physiological and acoustical correlates of women's ratings of men's vocal masculinity

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Reby

2014

Hormones and Behavior

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Section: Physiological Characteristics and Voice Cuessupporting

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What makes a voice masculine: Physiological and acoustical correlates of women's ratings of men's vocal masculinity

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Bond

Reby

2014

Hormones and Behavior

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“…A relationship also exists between testosterone and male voice pitch (Dabbs & Mallinger, 1999;Evans, Neave, Wakelin, & Hamilton, 2008; although see Bruckert, Lienard, Lacroix, Kreutzer, & Leboucher, 2006) and females have been shown to prefer low pitch male voices (Apicella, Feinberg, & Marlowe, 2007;Bruckert et al, 2006;Collins, 2000;.…”

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Perceptions of Human Attractiveness Comprising Face and Voice Cues

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In human mate choice, sexually dimorphic faces and voices comprise hormone-mediated cues that purportedly develop as an indicator of mate quality or the ability to compete with samesex rivals. If preferences for faces communicate the same biologically relevant information as do voices, then ratings of these cues should correlate. Sixty participants (30 male and 30 female) rated a series of opposite-sex faces, voices, and faces together with voices for attractiveness in a repeated measures computer-based experiment. The effects of face and voice attractiveness on face-voice compound stimuli were analyzed using a multilevel model.Faces contributed proportionally more than voices to ratings of face-voice compound attractiveness. Faces and voices positively and independently contributed to the attractiveness of male compound stimuli although there was no significant correlation between their rated attractiveness. A positive interaction and correlation between attractiveness was shown for faces and voices in relation to the attractiveness of female compound stimuli. Rather than providing a better estimate of a single characteristic, male faces and voices may instead communicate independent information that, in turn, provides a female with a better assessment of overall mate quality. Conversely, female faces and voices together provide males with a more accurate assessment of a single dimension of mate quality.

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“…Nevertheless, F0 remains a highly distinctive and variable component of mammal calls and its covariation with caller attributes suggests that it might nonetheless provide important information for receivers in sexual contexts (e.g. on hormone profiles: Dabbs & Mallinger 1999;Evans et al 2008;maturity: Reby & McComb 2003a;dominance: Vannoni & McElligott 2008).…”

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Oestrous red deer hinds prefer male roars with higher fundamental frequencies

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Across vertebrates, the observation that lower-pitched vocalizations are typically associated with larger and/or higher quality males has lead to the widespread belief that inter-and intra-sexual selection will produce male calls with low fundamental frequencies (F0). Here we investigated the response of oestrous red deer hinds to playback of re-synthesized male roars characterized by either higher than average or lower than average F0. We found that hinds prefer higher rather than lower 'pitched' roars, providing, to our knowledge, the first evidence of such a bias in nonhuman mammals. Our findings can be interpreted in relation to previous observations that the minimum F0 of roars is positively correlated with male reproductive success in free-ranging red deer stags, and that across Cervids the F0 of male mating calls shows extreme variability. Females showing preferences for higher-pitched roars might derive genetic benefits through more competitive male offspring. Our results emphasize the need for further investigations of female preferences in mammals in order to better understand the extreme variation of F0 values observed in male sexual calls.

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High testosterone levels predict low voice pitchamong men

Cited by 217 publications

References 9 publications

What makes a voice masculine: Physiological and acoustical correlates of women's ratings of men's vocal masculinity

What makes a voice masculine: Physiological and acoustical correlates of women's ratings of men's vocal masculinity

Perceptions of Human Attractiveness Comprising Face and Voice Cues

Oestrous red deer hinds prefer male roars with higher fundamental frequencies

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