ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2018
A Compensatory Effect on Mate Selection? Importance of Auditory, Olfactory, and Tactile Cues in Partner Choice among Blind and Sighted Individuals.
Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Nocturnal selective pressures on the evolution of human musicality as a missing piece of the adaptationist puzzle.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Hearing, touching, and multisensory integration during mate choice.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
- The Importance of Intact Senses in Mating and Social Assessments Made by Deaf Individuals.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Article
- The Role of Vision in the Emergence of Mate Preferences.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Article
- Consequences of undetected olfactory loss for human chemosensory communication and well-being.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Human attractiveness is a potent social variable, and people assess their potential partners based on input from a range of sensory modalities. Among all sensory cues, visual signals are typically considered to be the most important and most salient source of information. However, it remains unclear how people without sight assess others. In the current study, we explored the relative importance of sensory modalities other than vision (smell, touch, and audition) in the assessment of same- and opposite-sex strangers. We specifically focused on possible sensory compensation in mate selection, defined as enhanced importance of modalities other than vision among blind individuals in their choice of potential partners. Data were obtained from a total of 119 participants, of whom 78 were blind people aged between 16 and 65 years (M = 42.4, SD = 12.6; 38 females) and a control sample of 41 sighted people aged between 20 and 64. As hypothesized, we observed a compensatory effect of blindness on auditory perception. Our data indicate that visual impairment increases the importance of audition in different types of social assessments for both sexes and in mate choice for blind men.
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