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Wells, T., Baguley, T. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0477-2492, Sergeant, M. and Dunn, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3226-1734,
2013.
Perceptions of human attractiveness comprising face and voice cues.
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42 (5), pp. 805-811.
ISSN 0004-0002
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Abstract
In human mate choice, sexually dimorphic faces and voices comprise hormone-mediated cues that purportedly develop as an indicator of mate quality or the ability to compete with same-sex rivals. If preferences for faces communicate the same biologically relevant information as do voices, then ratings of these cues should correlate. Sixty participants (30 male and 30 female) rated a series of opposite-sex faces, voices, and faces together with voices for attractiveness in a repeated measures computer-based experiment. The effects of face and voice attractiveness on face-voice compound stimuli were analyzed using a multilevel model. Faces contributed proportionally more than voices to ratings of face-voice compound attractiveness. Faces and voices positively and independently contributed to the attractiveness of male compound stimuli although there was no significant correlation between their rated attractiveness. A positive interaction and correlation between attractiveness was shown for faces and voices in relation to the attractiveness of female compound stimuli. Rather than providing a better estimate of a single characteristic, male faces and voices may instead communicate independent information that, in turn, provides a female with a better assessment of overall mate quality. Conversely, female faces and voices together provide males with a more accurate assessment of a single dimension of mate quality.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Archives of Sexual Behavior | ||||
| Creators: | Wells, T., Baguley, T., Sergeant, M. and Dunn, A. | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
| Date: | 2013 | ||||
| Volume: | 42 | ||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||
| ISSN: | 0004-0002 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | EPrints Services | ||||
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:48 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 13:39 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18396 |
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