Dominance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in human voice pitch

By D. Puts, S. Gaulin, K. Verdolini. 2006

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

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Intrasexual competition among women: Vocal femininity affects perceptions of attractiveness and flirtatiousness (2011, background): “In contrast, intrasexual dominance competition may have shaped men’s deeper voices more strongly than did female preferences (Hodges-Simeon et al., 2010; Puts et al., 2006, 2007; Wolff & Puts, 2010).”
Candidate Voice Pitch Influences Election Outcomes (2016, background): “Within this literature, a dominant individual is defined as one who “tells other people what to do, is respected, influential, and often a leader” (Puts et al., 2006, p. 287).”
A domain-specific opposite-sex bias in human preferences for manipulated voice pitch. (2010, methodology): “This PSOLA method has been used successfully in other human voice attractiveness studies (Feinberg et al. 2006, 2008a, b; Puts et al. 2006; Jones et al. 2008; Vukovic et al. 2008) and in studies of voice quality, dominance and mate preferences among other mammalian species (Reby et al.”
Voice pitch influences voting behavior (2012, background): “dominant lower their voice pitch in response to mate competition, whereas men who think they are relatively less dominant raise the pitch of their voices in response to mate competition (Puts et al., 2006).”
Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness (2012, background): “2006, 2007), and men who judge themselves as physically dominant lower their vocal pitch in response to other male competitors (Puts et al. 2006).”
Vocal and Physiological Changes in Response to the Physical Attractiveness of Conversational Partners (2010, background): “Males who speak in a lower pitch voice compared to their higher pitched counterparts have also reported having more sexual partners within the last year (Puts et al. 2006).”
Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity (2008, background): “t1:15 econd-to-fourth digit ratio + Scarbrough and Johnston (2005) t1:16 ge + Little et al.”
If music is the food of love, what about survival and reproductive success? (2008, background): “Similarly, the high pitch and soft undulant vocal sounds of motherese are exaggerations of the affinitive prosody in adults that indicates deference or nondominance (Puts et al., 2006) and the emotion of “happiness” in both natural and synthesized speech (Frick, 1985; Scherer & Oshinsky, 1977).”
Vocal masculinity is a robust dominance signal in men (2010, methodology): “Contest competition was likely an important means by which ancestral men competed for mates (Puts 2010), and several lines of evidence suggest that vocal masculinity in particular functioned as a dominance signal in this context (Ohala 1983, 1984; Tusing and Dillard 2000; Puts et al. 2006, 2007).”
Taller men are less sensitive to cues of dominance in other men (2010, methodology): “This PSOLA method has been used successfully in other studies of human voice perception (Feinberg et al. 2005, 2006; Puts et al. 2006; Feinberg, DeBruine, Jones, and Little 2008; Feinberg, DeBruine, Jones, and Perrett 2008; Jones, Feinberg, et al. 2008; Vukovic et al. 2008; Jones, Feinberg, et al. 2”