Roar of a Champion: Loudness and Voice Pitch Predict Perceived Fighting Ability but Not Success in MMA Fighters

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/19:10400468

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00859" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00859</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Roar of a Champion: Loudness and Voice Pitch Predict Perceived Fighting Ability but Not Success in MMA Fighters

Original language description

Historically, antagonistic interactions have been a crucial determinant of access to various fitness-affecting resources. In many vertebrate species, information about relative fighting ability is conveyed, among other things, by vocalization. Previous research found that men&apos;s upper-body strength can be assessed from voice. In the present study, we tested formidability perception of intimidating vocalization (roars) and a short utterance produced by amateur male MMA fighters attending the amateur European Championships in relation to their physical fitness indicators and fighting success. We also tested acoustic predictors of the perceived formidability. We found that body height, weight, and physical fitness failed to predict perceived formidability either from speech or from the roars. Similarly, there was no significant association between formidability of the roars and utterances and actual fighting success. Perceived formidability was predicted mainly by roars&apos; and utterances&apos; intensity and roars&apos; harmonics-to-noise ratio and duration. Interestingly, fundamental frequency (F-0) predicted formidability ratings in both roars and utterances but in an opposite manner, so that low F-0 utterances but high F-0 roars were rated as more formidable. Our results suggest that formidability perception is primarily driven by intensity and duration of the vocalizations.

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

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Psychology

ISSN

1664-1078

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

859

UT code for WoS article

000466480700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85065140272