Sexual Selection on Human Voices

Puts, David A.; Doll, Leslie M.; Hill, Alexander K.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0314-6_3

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“…Environments with higher uncertainty may lead to higher and earlier reproductive rates in a population, intensifying male competition for status and resources (Kruger 2014) and increasing the expression of violent behaviors (Puts et al 2014). Considering that testosterone is associated with higher levels of violence and intensity of male competition and that men have higher levels of testosterone than women, these facts prompt an expectation of social and athletic challenges (Kruger 2014).…”

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Investment in Beauty, Exercise, and Self-esteem: Are They Related to Self-perception as a Romantic Partner?

Mafra

Castro

Lopes

2015

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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Men and women prefer certain characteristics that are interpreted as clues to the reproductive quality of potential partners. Physical appearance, for example, is an important characteristic for both sexes because it can signal youth and fertility in females and capacity for protection, dominance, competitive ability, and high social status in males. Therefore, we predicted that people would put significant effort into improving their physical attractiveness in order to compete in the mating market, and this relationship would be influenced by self-perception and socioeconomic status. In order to investigate whether investment in beauty and exercise are related to self-perception as romantic partners and self-esteem, this study was conducted with 205 men and women of lower socioeconomic status from Brazil. They were asked about their self-esteem (Rosenberg self-esteem scale), socioeconomic status, investment in beauty, time exercising, and self-perception as a romantic partner. Although no significant relationship between self-perception as a romantic partner and exercise was found, our results suggest that female investment in beauty is related to their financial condition, whereas male investment in beauty is related to greater evaluation in handsome face, beautiful body, sociability, and agreeableness, being correlation stronger when controlled by participants' self-esteem. The results support Leary and Baumeister's sociometer theory (2000 cited in Bale and Archer Evolutionary Psychology, 11, 68-84, 2013) and Penke and Denissen's (Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1123Personality, 42, -1129Personality, 42, , 2008 findings, in which men would associate more characteristics of their self-perception in a mate market with their self-esteem.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Investment in Beauty, Exercise, and Self-esteem: Are They Related to Self-perception as a Romantic Partner?

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Lopes

2015

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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“…However, for the female speaker, the semitones of the angry tokens were not different from the happy semitones, but both were higher than the neutral semitones. Although some of these differences echo the natural variations in intonation among men and women (e.g., f0 differences; Childers & Wu, 1991;Puts, Doll, & Hill, 2014), others could be due to the idiosyncratic differences between the two actors, even though their voice types were quite prototypical in terms of f 0.…”

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Can you hear what I feel? A validated prosodic set of angry, happy, and neutral Italian pseudowords

2015

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This contribution aims to establish a set of validated vocal Italian pseudowords that convey three emotional tones (angry, happy, and neutral) for prosodic emotional processing research. We elaborated the materials by following a series of specific steps. First, we tested the valence of a set of written pseudowords generated by specific software. Two Italian actors (male and female) then recorded the resulting subset of linguistically legal and neutral pseudowords in three emotional tones. Finally, on the basis of the results of independent ratings of emotional intensity, we selected a set of 30 audio stimuli expressed in each of the three different emotions. Acoustic analyses indicated that the prosodic indexes of fundamental frequency, vocal intensity, and speech rate anchored individual perceptions of the emotions expressed. Finally, the acoustic profile of the set of emotional stimuli confirmed previous findings. The happy tone stimuli showed high f 0 values, high intensity, high pitch variability, and a faster speech rate. The angry tone stimuli were also characterized by high f 0 and intensity, but by relatively smaller pitch variability and a lower speech rate. This last profile echoes the description of Bcold anger.^This new set of prosodic emotion stimuli will constitute a useful resource for future research that requires emotional prosody materials. It could be used both for Italian and for cross-language studies.

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“…In human men, for example, testosterone lengthens and thickens the vocal cords, causing lower voice pitch, which increases perceived social dominance (Apicella & Feinberg 2009, Archer 2006, Dabbs & Mallinger 1999, Hodges-Simeon et al 2014, Puts et al 2014). However, in some mammals, loud calls with high fundamental frequencies signal fitness and fighting ability (Garcia et al 2013, Reby & McComb 2003, Reby et al 2010).…”

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Testosterone and reproductive effort in male primates

Muller

2017

Hormones and Behavior

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Considerable evidence suggests that the steroid hormone testosterone mediates major life-history trade-offs in vertebrates, promoting mating effort at the expense of parenting effort or survival. Observations from a range of wild primates support the “Challenge Hypothesis,” which posits that variation in male testosterone is more closely associated with aggressive mating competition than with reproductive physiology. In both seasonally and non-seasonally breeding species, males increase testosterone production primarily when competing for fecund females. In species where males compete to maintain long-term access to females, testosterone increases when males are threatened with losing access to females, rather than during mating periods. And when male status is linked to mating success, and dependent on aggression, high-ranking males normally maintain higher testosterone levels than subordinates, particularly when dominance hierarchies are unstable. Trade-offs between parenting effort and mating effort appear to be weak in most primates, because direct investment in the form of infant transport and provisioning is rare. Instead, infant protection is the primary form of paternal investment in the order. Testosterone does not inhibit this form of investment, which relies on male aggression. Testosterone has a wide range of effects in primates that plausibly function to support male competitive behavior. These include psychological effects related to dominance striving, analgesic effects, and effects on the development and maintenance of the armaments and adornments that males employ in mating competition.

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Sexual Selection on Human Voices

Cited by 30 publications

References 157 publications

Investment in Beauty, Exercise, and Self-esteem: Are They Related to Self-perception as a Romantic Partner?

Investment in Beauty, Exercise, and Self-esteem: Are They Related to Self-perception as a Romantic Partner?

Can you hear what I feel? A validated prosodic set of angry, happy, and neutral Italian pseudowords

Testosterone and reproductive effort in male primates

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