Women misjudge men’s physical characteristics based on vocal cues

IF 1.5 4区 生物学 Q2 ZOOLOGY
Ł. Pawelec, K. Graja, Jagoda Marchewczyk, A. Lipowicz
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ABSTRACT Voice is an important biological cue, which may reveal a significant amount of information about an individual. Particularly in males, it plays a crucial role in processes like male competition or sexual selection. Additionally, voice can provide a cue for body size assessment. This study investigates the relationship between male voice characteristics and physical features (assessed by women) and determines the accuracy of these assessments. Three groups of female judges assessed 60 male voices (20 different voices per group) across seven categories of male physical features: height, body fat, musculature, body shape, hirsuteness, age and strength. Recordings of five vowels and sentence and number of anthropometric measurements were made for each of the studied men. Intra- and extragroup agreement of assessments of men’s physical characteristics was demonstrated. Men with lower fundamental frequency (F0 ) and lower formant dispersion (Df ) values were perceived as being heavier, older, stronger and more likely to have chest hair. However, across all the analysed fields of assessment, no accuracy was registered between estimates and men’s actual physical characteristics. These findings suggest that females were guided by stereotypes in their assessment of men’s appearance from voice alone. We propose the size exaggeration hypothesis as an explanation of this phenomenon
女性根据声音线索误判男性的身体特征
摘要声音是一种重要的生物线索,它可以揭示个体的大量信息。尤其是在男性中,它在男性竞争或性选择等过程中发挥着至关重要的作用。此外,语音可以为体型评估提供线索。这项研究调查了男性声音特征和身体特征(由女性评估)之间的关系,并确定了这些评估的准确性。三组女性评委评估了60个男性声音(每组20个不同的声音),涵盖了七类男性身体特征:身高、体脂、肌肉组织、体型、多毛、年龄和力量。记录了每个被研究男性的五个元音、句子和人体测量次数。组内和组外对男性身体特征的评估一致。基频(F0)和共振峰离散度(Df)值较低的男性被认为更重、更老、更强壮,更有可能有胸毛。然而,在所有分析的评估领域中,估计值与男性的实际身体特征之间没有准确性。这些发现表明,女性在评估男性外表时,仅从声音上就受到了刻板印象的引导。我们提出了尺寸夸大假说来解释这一现象
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期刊介绍: Bioacoustics primarily publishes high-quality original research papers and reviews on sound communication in birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, insects and other invertebrates, including the following topics : -Communication and related behaviour- Sound production- Hearing- Ontogeny and learning- Bioacoustics in taxonomy and systematics- Impacts of noise- Bioacoustics in environmental monitoring- Identification techniques and applications- Recording and analysis- Equipment and techniques- Ultrasound and infrasound- Underwater sound- Bioacoustical sound structures, patterns, variation and repertoires
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