Relating visual and vocal attractiveness for moving and static faces

Lander, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.07.001

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“…We also found significant correlations between photo and video-rated attractiveness (contra Lander, 2008;Penton-Voak & Chang, 2008;Rubenstein, 2005), and a non-significant tendency towards a correlation between both photo/video-rated attractiveness and BMI.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…Some previous studies (Lander, 2008;Penton-Voak & Chang, 2008;Rubenstein, 2005) have not found a significant correlation between the two, suggesting that dynamic images are judged according to different standards. However, these differences are at least partly due to methodology ) and, if each carries reliable information about male quality, we would expect them to be correlated.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…It is, therefore, difficult to disentangle the effects of behavioral cues and those of the other traits on perceptions of judges. Thus, it is no surprise that ratings of human faces in static and dynamic form are intercorrelated (Riggio, Widaman, Tucker, & Salinas, 1991;Roberts, Saxton et al, 2009), even though some studies have suggested that the level of this correlation is lower than might be expected (Lander, 2008;Penton-Voak & Chang, 2008;Rubenstein, 2005). One solution to this problem is to employ new digital technologies to capture movement independently of shape or other information, by using wire-frame images or standardized models (Brown et al, 2005;Morrison et al, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Body Odor Quality Predicts Behavioral Attractiveness in Humans

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Growing effort is being made to understand how different attractive physical traits covary within individuals, partly because this might indicate an underlying index of genetic quality. In humans, attention has focussed on potential markers of quality such as facial attractiveness, axillary odor quality, the second-to-fourth digit (2D:4D) ratio and body-mass index (BMI). Here we extend this approach to include visually-assessed kinesic cues (nonverbal behavior linked to movement) which are statistically independent of structural physical traits. The utility of such kinesic cues in mate assessment is controversial, particularly during every day conversational contexts, as they could be unreliable and susceptible to deception. However, we show here that the attractiveness of nonverbal behavior, in 20 male participants, is predicted by perceived quality of their axillary body odor. This finding indicates covariation between two desirable traits in different sensory modalities. Depending on two different rating contexts (either a simple attractiveness rating, or a rating for long-term partners, by 10 female raters not using hormonal contraception), we also found significant relationships between perceived attractiveness of nonverbal behavior and BMI, and between axillary odor ratings and 2D:4D ratio. Axillary odor pleasantness was the single attribute that consistently predicted attractiveness of nonverbal behavior. Our results demonstrate that nonverbal kinesic cues could reliably reveal mate quality, at least in males, and could corroborate and contribute to mate assessment based on other physical traits.

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“…Indeed, a number of studies have shown a relationship between female (Collins & Missing, 2003;Feinberg et al, 2005;Fraccaro et al, 2010;Lander, 2008;Saxton et al, 2009) and male Hughes, Dispenza, & Gallup, 2004;Saxton, Caryl, & Roberts, 2006;Saxton et al, 2009) cues. However, while there is concordance between findings from the investigation of female cues, the relationship between face and voice attractiveness in males is equivocal.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While this suggests a relationship between female preferences for masculine faces and voices, it does not address the question of whether these preferences relate to attractive faces and voices that correlate within individuals. The studies by Feinberg et al (2008) and Saxton et al (2006) both used a forced-choice paradigm, where participants continually chose the more attractive of two simultaneously presented stimuli (relative judgement) as opposed to rating a single stimulus on a scale (absolute judgement) (Lander, 2008). When participants provided an absolute judgement for faces and voices separately, male face and voice attractiveness ratings were not found to be related (Lander, 2008).…”

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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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Women’s Probability of Conception Is Associated with their Preference for Flirtatious but not Masculine Facial Movement

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Women's preferences for facial structure vary over the menstrual cycle. Little is known, however, as to how preferences for behavior may be influenced by hormonal factors. Here, we demonstrate that social properties of facial motion influence attractiveness judgments in the absence of other cues, and that women's preferences for these displays vary over the menstrual cycle, as has been demonstrated for structural traits of men's faces in static stimuli. We produced shape-standardized facial models that were animated with male movement and assessed for flirtatiousness by 16 women and attractiveness by 47 women. In fertile phases of the menstrual cycle, women showed stronger preferences for flirtatious movement, but not for absolute movement. These data show that women (1) recognize specific mating-relevant social cues in male facial movement and (2) are differentially influenced by these cues at different phases of the menstrual cycle. This preference for flirtatiousness may promote the adaptive allocation of mating effort towards men who are, in turn, likely to respond positively.

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Relating visual and vocal attractiveness for moving and static faces

Cited by 50 publications

References 33 publications

Body Odor Quality Predicts Behavioral Attractiveness in Humans

Body Odor Quality Predicts Behavioral Attractiveness in Humans

Perceptions of Human Attractiveness Comprising Face and Voice Cues

Women’s Probability of Conception Is Associated with their Preference for Flirtatious but not Masculine Facial Movement

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