Filipino Women’s Preferences for Male Voice Pitch: Intra-Individual, Life History, and Hormonal Predictors

Shirazi, Talia; Puts, David A.; Escasa‐Dorne, Michelle

doi:10.1007/s40750-018-0087-2

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“…From the perspective of the “speaker,” for example, many studies have investigated the effects of voice characteristics, such as length, intensity and pitch, on the evaluation of voice attractiveness (Jones, Feinberg, DeBruine, Little & Vukovic, 2008; Xu & Lee, 2018; Zuckerman & Miyake, 1993). From the perspective of the “listener,” the attractiveness evaluation of other voices could be affected by different biological, psychological and social factors embodied in the listener, such as his/her physiological hormone levels (Hodges‐Simeon, Gaulin & Puts, 2010; Shirazi, Puts & Escasa‐Dorne, 2018), physical condition (Feinberg, Jones, DeBruine, O'Connor, Tigue & Borak, 2011), and social relationship with the speaker (Ferdenzi, Delplanque, Vorontsova‐Wenger, Pool, Bianchi‐Demicheli & Sander, 2015).…”

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Mechanism underlying the self‐enhancement effect of voice attractiveness evaluation: self‐positivity bias and familiarity effect

Peng

Wang

et al. 2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The aim of the present study was to determine whether the self‐enhancement effect of voice attractiveness evaluation is due to general self‐positivity bias and/or the familiarity effect. The participants were asked to rate the attractiveness of their own voice, a friend's voice and strangers' voices. In addition, a self‐reference valence (SR‐valence) task was adopted in the experiment. Significant self‐enhancement effects in voice attractiveness ratings were demonstrated, regardless of whether the participants recognized their self‐voice or not. However, the friend‐enhancement effect was found in only those participants who successfully recognized their friend's voice. Moreover, a significant correlation was found between self‐positivity bias in the SR‐valence task and the self‐enhancement effect (but not the friend‐enhancement effect). Our findings suggest that both the familiarity effect and self‐positivity bias account for the vocal self‐enhancement effect, and the influence of self‐positivity bias could be implicit. The present study thus provides empirical evidence to clarify the potential explanations for the self‐enhancement of voice attractiveness assessment.

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Mechanism underlying the self‐enhancement effect of voice attractiveness evaluation: self‐positivity bias and familiarity effect

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Wang

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Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…Nevertheless, the relationship between male and female F0 and attractiveness is non-linear: the most attractive male voices are around 96 Hz and the most attractive female ones up to 280 Hz (Borkowska and Pawlowski, 2011; Saxton et al, 2015). Importantly, preferences for lower- and higher-pitched voices in men and women, respectively can be specific to certain contexts and individuals, such as short-term relationships (Little et al, 2002), coupled women (Valentová et al, 2013), and nulliparous women (Apicella and Feinberg, 2009), and in some populations that can even be inverted (Shirazi et al, 2018). Moreover, recent evidence suggests that lower-pitched female voices are perceived as attractive (Babel et al, 2014), and women actively lower their voices when speaking to attractive men or when willing to sound attractive (Hughes et al, 2014; Pisanski et al, 2018; but see Fraccaro et al, 2011).…”

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“…Studies comparing more populations with different physical, cultural, and linguistic compositions are thus needed to increase generalization of results. For example, although most North American and European studies concluded that women prefer lower-pitched male voices, Filipino women seem to follow the opposite pattern (Shirazi et al, 2018). In our study, we employed two sets of participants using sampling in one South American and one Central European population (Brazil and Czech, respectively), which differ widely as to their history, culture, ethnicity, and demographic data, and which both also differ from Western European and North American societies.…”

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Vocal Parameters of Speech and Singing Covary and Are Related to Vocal Attractiveness, Body Measures, and Sociosexuality: A Cross-Cultural Study

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Perceived vocal attractiveness and measured sex-dimorphic vocal parameters are both associated with underlying individual qualities. Research tends to focus on speech but singing is another highly evolved communication system that has distinct and universal features with analogs in other species, and it is relevant in mating. Both speaking and singing voice provides relevant information about its producer. We tested whether speech and singing function as “backup signals” that indicate similar underlying qualities. Using a sample of 81 men and 86 women from Brazil and the Czech Republic, we investigated vocal attractiveness rated from speech and singing and its association with fundamental frequency (F0), apparent vocal tract length (VTL), body characteristics, and sociosexuality. F0, VTL, and rated attractiveness of singing and speaking voice strongly correlated within the same individual. Lower-pitched speech in men, higher-pitched speech and singing in women, individuals who like to sing more, and singing of individuals with a higher pitch modulation were perceived as more attractive. In men, physical size positively predicted speech and singing attractiveness. Male speech but not singing attractiveness was associated with higher sociosexuality. Lower-pitched male speech was related to higher sociosexuality, while lower-pitched male singing was linked to lower sociosexuality. Similarly, shorter speech VTL and longer singing VTL predicted higher sociosexuality in women. Different vocal displays function as “backup signals” cueing to attractiveness and body size, but their relation to sexual strategies in men and women differs. Both singing and speech may indicate evolutionarily relevant individual qualities shaped by sexual selection.

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“…Indeed, sexual ornaments are more variable in males and tend to be more sensitive to the overall growth of individual compared to other traits (23,24,26,27) . Traits such as tall height (28)(29)(30) , facial masculinity (31,32) , and deep voices (33)(34)(35)(36)(37) are often thought of as sexual ornaments in humans as they are perceived to be attractive to females (38) and intimidating to other males (35,(39)(40)(41) However, the evidence that these traits reflect the condition or quality of males in humans is ambiguous and inconsistent across studies (17,(42)(43)(44)(45) . Some of the inconsistency could be due to methodological limitations of previous studies such as small sample size, lack of correction for population structure, and the use of perceived measures of masculinity and attractiveness, which are likely influenced by socio-cultural factors that are difficult to control in observational studies.…”

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Facial masculinity does not appear to be a condition-dependent male ornament in humans and does not reflect MHC heterozygosity

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Facial masculinity is thought to be a condition-dependent male ornament, reflecting immunocompetence in humans. To test this hypothesis, we calculated an objective measure of facial masculinity/femininity using three-dimensional images in a large sample (N = 1,233) of people of European ancestry. We show that facial masculinity is positively correlated with adult height in both males and females. This suggests that variation in growth contributes, at least in part, to variation in facial masculinity, which is characteristic of condition-dependent traits. However, facial masculinity scales with growth similarly in males and females, suggesting that facial masculinity is not specifically a male ornament. Additionally, we measured immunocompetence via heterozygosity at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), a well known genetic marker of immunity. We show that while height is positively correlated with MHC heterozygosity, facial masculinity is not. Thus, facial masculinity does not reflect immunocompetence measured by MHC heterozygosity in humans as thought previously. Overall, we find no support for the idea that facial masculinity is a condition-dependent male ornament that has evolved to indicate immunocompetence.

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Filipino Women’s Preferences for Male Voice Pitch: Intra-Individual, Life History, and Hormonal Predictors

Cited by 22 publications

References 92 publications

Mechanism underlying the self‐enhancement effect of voice attractiveness evaluation: self‐positivity bias and familiarity effect

Mechanism underlying the self‐enhancement effect of voice attractiveness evaluation: self‐positivity bias and familiarity effect

Vocal Parameters of Speech and Singing Covary and Are Related to Vocal Attractiveness, Body Measures, and Sociosexuality: A Cross-Cultural Study

Facial masculinity does not appear to be a condition-dependent male ornament in humans and does not reflect MHC heterozygosity

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