Positive association between vocal and facial attractiveness in women but not in men: A cross-cultural study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.005" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.005</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.005" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Positive association between vocal and facial attractiveness in women but not in men: A cross-cultural study

Original language description

Various species use multiple sensory modalities in the communication processes. In humans, female facial appearance and vocal display are correlated and it has been suggested that they serve as redundant markers indicating the bearer&apos;s reproductive potential and/or residual fertility. In men, evidence for redundancy of facial and vocal attractiveness is ambiguous. We tested the redundancy/multiple signals hypothesis by correlating perceived facial and vocal attractiveness in men and women from two different populations, Brazil and the Czech Republic. We also investigated whether facial and vocal attractiveness are linked to facial morphology. Standardized facial pictures and vocal samples of 86 women (47 from Brazil) and 81 men (41 from Brazil), aged 18-35, were rated for attractiveness by opposite-sex raters. Facial and vocal attractiveness were found to positively correlate in women but not in men. We further applied geometric morphometrics and regressed facial shape coordinates on facial and vocal attractiveness ratings. In women, facial shape was linked to their facial attractiveness but there was no association between facial shape and vocal attractiveness. In men, none of these associations was significant. Having shown that women with more attractive faces possess also more attractive voices, we thus only partly supported the redundant signal hypothesis.

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

10613 - Zoology

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

Behavioural Processes

ISSN

0376-6357

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

135

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

95-100

UT code for WoS article

000394403200015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85008674784