ArticleDie Naturwissenschaften2014
Body height, immunity, facial and vocal attractiveness in young men.
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- Low fundamental and formant frequencies predict fighting ability among male mixed martial arts fighters.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Facial attractiveness and preference of sexual dimorphism: A comparison across five populations.Evolutionary human sciences · 2021Article
- Attractiveness and distinctiveness between speakers' voices in naturalistic speech and their faces are uncorrelated.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Women's socioeconomic position in ontogeny is associated with improved immune function and lower stress, but not with height.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Facial masculinity does not appear to be a condition-dependent male ornament and does not reflect MHC heterozygosity in humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Body height and immune efficacy: testing body stature as a signal of biological quality.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Are there vocal cues to human developmental stability? Relationships between facial fluctuating asymmetry and voice attractiveness.Evolution and human behavior : official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society · 2017Article
- Male Vocal Quality and Its Relation to Females' Preferences.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- Self-rated Attractiveness and Sociosexual Behavior Predict Gay Men's Preferences for Masculine Cues in Male Voices in China.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- Immunoactivation Affects Perceived Body Odor and Facial but Not Vocal Attractiveness.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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9 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Health, facial and vocal attributes and body height of men may affect a diverse range of social outcomes such as attractiveness to potential mates and competition for resources. Despite evidence that each parameter plays a role in mate choice, the relative role of each and inter-relationships between them, is still poorly understood. In this study, we tested relationships both between these parameters and with testosterone and immune function. We report positive relationships between testosterone with facial masculinity and attractiveness, and we found that facial masculinity predicted facial attractiveness and antibody response to a vaccine. Moreover, the relationship between antibody response to a hepatitis B vaccine and body height was found to be non-linear, with a positive relationship up to a height of 188 cm, but an inverse relationship in taller men. We found that vocal attractiveness was dependent upon vocal masculinity. The relationship between vocal attractiveness and body height was also non-linear, with a positive relationship of up to 178 cm, which then decreased in taller men. We did not find a significant relationship between body height and the fundamental frequency of vowel sounds provided by young men, while body height negatively correlated with the frequency of second formant. However, formant frequency was not associated with the strength of immune response. Our results demonstrate the potential of vaccination research to reveal costly traits that govern evolution of mate choice in humans and the importance of trade-offs among these traits.
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