ArticleiScience2018
Human Listeners Can Accurately Judge Strength and Height Relative to Self from Aggressive Roars and Speech.
Article in iScience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans.eLife · 2022Pooled it
- Dogs' reactions to motivations and emotions in conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Beyond speech: Exploring diversity in the human voice.iScience · 2023Article
- A model for person perception from familiar and unfamiliar voices.Communications psychology · 2023Review
- Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Vocal Cues to Male Physical Formidability.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Static and dynamic formant scaling conveys body size and aggression.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Vocal modulation in human mating and competition.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Predicting strength from aggressive vocalizations versus speech in African bushland and urban communities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Neurocognitive processing efficiency for discriminating human non-alarm rather than alarm scream calls.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- Efficacy in deceptive vocal exaggeration of human body size.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Article
- Linking human male vocal parameters to perceptions, body morphology, strength and hormonal profiles in contexts of sexual selection.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Assessment of physical strength from gait: data from the Maasai of Tanzania.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Roar of a Champion: Loudness and Voice Pitch Predict Perceived Fighting Ability but Not Success in MMA Fighters.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Do human screams permit individual recognition?PeerJ · 2019Article
- Vocal Parameters of Speech and Singing Covary and Are Related to Vocal Attractiveness, Body Measures, and Sociosexuality: A Cross-Cultural Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Human roars communicate upper-body strength more effectively than do screams or aggressive and distressed speech.PloS one · 2019Article
- Predictors of Fighting Ability Inferences Based on Faces.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Although animal vocalizations and human speech are known to communicate physical formidability, no previous study has examined whether human listeners can assess the strength or body size of vocalizers relative to their own, either from speech or from nonverbal vocalizations. Here, although men tended to underestimate women's formidability, and women to overestimate men's, listeners judged relative strength and height from aggressive roars and aggressive speech accurately. For example, when judging roars, male listeners accurately identified vocalizers who were substantially stronger than themselves in 88% of trials, and never as weaker. For male vocalizers only, roars functioned to exaggerate the expression of threat compared to aggressive speech, as men were rated as relatively stronger when producing roars. These results indicate that, like other mammals, the acoustic structure of human aggressive vocal signals (and in particular roars) may have been selected to communicate functional information relevant to listeners' survival.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.