ReviewFrontiers in psychology2017
Attractiveness Is Multimodal: Beauty Is Also in the Nose and Ear of the Beholder.
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- Voice-based judgments of sex, height, weight, attractiveness, health, and psychological traits based on free speech versus scripted speech.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Influence of male's facial attractiveness, vocal attractiveness and social interest on female's decisions of fairness.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Vienna Talking Faces (ViTaFa): A multimodal person database with synchronized videos, images, and voices.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- The role of visual and auditory information in social event segmentation.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- How music-induced emotions affect sexual attraction: evolutionary implications.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Comparing accuracy in voice-based assessments of biological speaker traits across speech types.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- The Role of Sex in the Effect of Vocal Attractiveness on Ultimatum Game Decisions.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Do we enjoy what we sense and perceive? A dissociation between aesthetic appreciation and basic perception of environmental objects or events.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
- The Scent of Monogamy: Self-Reported Olfactory Function Predicts Sexual Well-Being and Infidelity in an Italian Population.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Canine Smell Preferences-Do Dogs Have Their Favorite Scents?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Enhancing the Evolutionary Science of Self-Presentation Modification.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Response to Commentaries: A Socioevolutionary Approach to Self-Presentation Modification.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Vocal Attractiveness Matters: Social Preferences in Cooperative Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Current Perspectives on Kisspeptins Role in Behaviour.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
- The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Attractiveness plays a central role in human non-verbal communication and has been broadly examined in diverse subfields of contemporary psychology. Researchers have garnered compelling evidence in support of the evolutionary functions of physical attractiveness and its role in our daily lives, while at the same time, having largely ignored the significant contribution of non-visual modalities and the relationships among them. Acoustic and olfactory cues can, separately or in combination, strongly influence the perceived attractiveness of an individual and therefore attitudes and actions toward that person. Here, we discuss the relative importance of visual, auditory and olfactory traits in judgments of attractiveness, and review neural and behavioral studies that support the highly complex and multimodal nature of person perception. Further, we discuss three alternative evolutionary hypotheses aimed at explaining the function of multiple indices of attractiveness. In this review, we provide several lines of evidence supporting the importance of the voice, body odor, and facial and body appearance in the perception of attractiveness and mate preferences, and therefore the critical need to incorporate cross-modal perception and multisensory integration into future research on human physical attractiveness.
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