Voices of Africa: acoustic predictors of human male vocal attractiveness

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/17:10362480 RIV/00023752:_____/17:43915453 RIV/00216208:11310/17:10325994 RIV/00216208:11240/17:10325994

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.03.014" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.03.014</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.03.014" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.03.014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Voices of Africa: acoustic predictors of human male vocal attractiveness

Original language description

Robust evidence shows that voice quality affects various social interactions, including mate preferences. Previous research found that male voices perceived as attractive are characterized by low voice pitch, lower or sexually typical formants and relatively high breathiness. These features tend to be seen as markers of an individual&apos;s quality as a potential mate. Although there are considerable differences between languages in vocal parameters that could influence the perceived attractiveness, the above-mentioned findings rely on research based mainly on participants from European or North American countries. In our study, we therefore tested the main acoustic predictors of vocal attractiveness using two male samples from Cameroon and Namibia. Standardized vocal recordings were then assessed for vocal attractiveness by a panel of female raters from the Czech Republic. Our results show that in the Cameroonian voices, fundamental frequency was strongly negatively associated with perceived vocal attractiveness. In the Namibian sample, however, it was not the fundamental frequency but lower mean formants and harmonics-to-noise ratio that were negatively associated with vocal attractiveness. This pattern may be partly attributed to differences in morphological characteristics such as the body mass index, indicating variation across individual populations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-05048S" target="_blank" >GA15-05048S: Forming first impressions from multiple modalities: a cross-cultural perspective</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Animal Behaviour

ISSN

0003-3472

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

127

Issue of the periodical within the volume

květen

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

205-211

UT code for WoS article

000402702900022

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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