The pursuit of social rank is a recurrent and pervasive challenge faced by individuals in all
human societies. Yet, the precise means through which individuals compete for social …

This chapter reviews studies on voice attractiveness from evolutionary, social, and cognitive
neuroscience perspectives. Taking this interdisciplinary approach, it explores what makes a …

Animals often use acoustical cues, such as formant frequencies, to assess the size of
potential mates and rivals. Reliable vocal cues to size may be under sexual selection. In …

Across many species, a major function of vocal communication is to convey formidability,
with low voice frequencies traditionally considered the main vehicle for projecting large size …

Acoustic allometry is the study of how animal vocalizations reflect their body size. A key aim
of this research is to identify outliers to acoustic allometry principles and pinpoint the …

In many primates, including humans, the vocalizations of males and females differ
dramatically, with male vocalizations and vocal anatomy often seeming to exaggerate …

Information from faces and voices combines to provide multimodal signals about a person.
Faces and voices may offer redundant, overlapping (backup signals), or complementary …

Men's voices contain acoustic cues to body size and hormonal status, which have been
found to affect women's ratings of speaker size, masculinity and attractiveness. However, the …

Sexual selection appears to have shaped the acoustic signals of diverse species, including
humans. Deep, resonant vocalizations in particular may function in attracting mates and/or …

Listeners associate low voice pitch (fundamental frequency and/or harmonics) and formants
(vocal-tract resonances) with large body size. Although formants reliably predict size within …