Voices of Attraction

Facial and vocal attractiveness: a developmental and cross-modality study

Research on physical attraction is often interpreted with reference to the theory that physical attraction enables adaptive mate choice behaviour. The sensation of physical attraction is thought to enable humans to select those mates who are most likely to help them bear the fittest offspring. The sexual behaviour associated with mate choice emerges at puberty, and so the present study investig...

What Do Voices Say in The Garden Party? An Analysis of Voices in the Persian Translation of Mansfield's Short Story

This study aims at investigating voices in the Persian translation of Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party. In so doing, after a stylistic analysis of the voices in the original is done, it is argued by the authors that the polyphonous nature of the story is to a great extent due to the deployment of various sociolects in the story as well as the choice of Free Indirect Discourse (FID) as the...

Critique of Research Books (Art) / Voices to See: A Review of Sound and Music in Documentaries, Mohammad Nasr Ahadi

A lover or a fighter? Opposing sexual selection pressures on men’s vocal pitch and facial hair

The traditional assumption within the research literature on human sexually dimorphic traits has been that many sex differences have arisen from intersexual selection. More recently, however, there has been a shift toward the idea that many male features, including male lower-pitched voices and male beard growth, might have arisen predominantly through intrasexual selection: that is, to serve t...

Menstrual cycle, trait estrogen level, and masculinity preferences in the human voice.

Men with low testosterone (feminine men) invest in relationships and offspring more than men with high testosterone (masculine men). Women's attraction to testosterone dependent traits (e.g. masculine face shape) is enhanced during the late-follicular, fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Attractive, feminine women have stronger preferences for masculine men as possible long-term partners than...