Are human faces and voices ornaments signaling common underlying cues to mate value?

By David Feinberg. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Small Animals

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Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men's traits (2013, background): “Fourth, facial, vocal, and bodily characteristics may be developmentally correlated (Feinberg, 2008; Fink, Neave, & Seydel, 2007), so when exploring relationships between each and success in mating competition, it is necessary to measure and statistically control for the others, as well as to…”
Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine men's voices (2008, background): “…Roberts, 2006), suggesting that men’s facial and vocal attractiveness are cues to a common underlying quality (Saxton et al., 2006; see also Hughes et al., 2004), sources of individual differences in women’s face preferences may also predict variation in women’s voice preferences (Feinberg, 2008).”
Sex differences in sports interest and motivation: An evolutionary perspective. (2015, background): “Our suggestion may seem surprising because there are many studies showing male mate preferences for women with feminine traits, including voice (Feinberg, 2008), face shape (Rhodes, 2006), and body shape (Singh, 1993; see also Cashdan, 2008).”
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).”
Cross-Cultural Variation in Mate Preferences for Averageness, Symmetry, Body Size, and Masculinity (2013, background): “The morphology of many physical features, such as stature or the shape of the face, is governed by physiological and hormonal developmental trajectories that also largely determine fertility and general health (Feinberg, 2008; Gangestad & Scheyd, 2005).”
Human preference for masculinity differs according to context in faces, bodies, voices, and smell (2011, background): “…of male faces (Perrett et al. 1998; Penton-Voak et al. 1999; Little et al. 2001), voices (Feinberg, Jones, Little, et al. 2005; Puts 2005; Feinberg et al. 2008), bodies (Pawlowski and Jasienska 2005; Little, Jones, and Burriss 2007), and putative male pheromones (Cornwell et al. 2004;…”
A domain-specific opposite-sex bias in human preferences for manipulated voice pitch. (2010, background): “The findings described above have generally been interpreted as evidence that vocal cues to men’s and women’s mate quality that are associated with pitch influence judgements of vocal attractiveness (reviewed in Feinberg 2008).”
Vocal indicators of body size in men and women: a meta-analysis (2014, background): “Instead, F0 and formants may more reliably indicate related traits such as attractiveness, masculinity, dominance and threat than physical size per se (reviewed in: Feinberg, 2008; Puts, Jones, et al., 2012).”
From Dating to Mating and Relating: Predictors of Initial and Long–Term Outcomes of Speed–Dating in a Community Sample (2011, background): “Less clear is the evidence for vocal attractiveness (attractiveness of one’s voice, independent of what one says) although a few studies suggest that the human voice also contains cues to health and is used as a cue for attraction (Feinberg, 2008; Hughes, Dispenza, & Gallup, 2004).”