Men's voices as dominance signals: vocal fundamental and formant frequencies influence dominance attributions among men

By D. Puts, Carolyn R. Hodges, R. Cárdenas, S. Gaulin. 2007

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The contribution of source–filter theory to mammal vocal communication research (2010, background): “…small as 7% are picked up by listeners (Smith & Patterson, 2005; Rendall, Vokey & Nemeth, 2007), and can influence how a speaker is perceived by other men and women in terms of weight, height, masculinity and dominance (Collins, 2000; Bruckert et al., 2006; Puts et al., 2007; Rendall et al., 2007).”
Candidate Voice Pitch Influences Election Outcomes (2016, background): “…including attractiveness (Feinberg et al., 2005a), strength (Feinberg et al., 2005a; Klofstad et al., 2012; Puts et al., 2012; Sell at al., 2010), competence (Klofstad et al., 2012), dominance (Puts et al., 2007), integrity (Tigue et al., 2012), and physical prowess (Tigue et al., 2012)?”
Human sexual selection (2016, background): “Evidence has begun to accumulate that across cultures, men’s secondary sex traits, such as beards, deep voices, and robust faces are more effective at intimidating other men than they are at attracting women [39 ,40,41,42].”
Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues (2014, background): “Low pitch, for example, may be associated with 475 politeness-relatedmeanings in Korean, but can also be associatedwithmasculinity and dominance in other contexts (see e. 476 g. Puts et al., 2007).”
Intrasexual competition among women: Vocal femininity affects perceptions of attractiveness and flirtatiousness (2011, background): “Although other authors have determined JNDs for vocal parameters, JNDs may vary according to the specific methods and stimuli of each study (see Puts et al., 2007).”
Toward a Unified Science of Hierarchy: Dominance and Prestige are Two Fundamental Pathways to Human Social Rank (2014, background): “Consistent with this expectation, listeners consistently rate deeper voices as conveying greater physical size, strength, masculinity, and dominance (e.g., Feinberg et al. 2005; Puts et al. 2006, 2007).”
Voice pitch influences voting behavior (2012, result): “This finding is consistent with previous work demonstrating that lowerpitched men's voices sound more dominant and attractive than do higher-pitched men's voices (see Feinberg, 2008 for review; Jones et al., 2010; Puts et al., 2006; Puts et al., 2007).”
Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “Yet, when dominance and attractiveness ratings of men's voices were used simultaneously to predict mating success, dominance strongly predicted number of sex partners, whereas attractiveness did not (Puts et al., 2007).”
Context-Related Variation in the Vocal Growling Behaviour of the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris) (2009, background): “…as 7% are picked up by listeners (Smith et al. 2005) and influence how the physical (e.g. height, weight, sex, attractiveness) and physiological (e.g. testosterone level) characteristics of a speaker are perceived by listeners (see Feinberg et al. 2005; Bruckert et al. 2006; Puts et al. 2007).”