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No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices

View ORCID ProfileChengyang Han, Hongyi Wang, View ORCID ProfileVanessa Fasolt, View ORCID ProfileAmanda C Hahn, View ORCID ProfileIris J Holzleitner, Junpeng Lao, View ORCID ProfileLisa M DeBruine, View ORCID ProfileDavid R Feinberg, Benedict C Jones
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/227165
Chengyang Han
1Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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Hongyi Wang
2School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, China.
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Vanessa Fasolt
1Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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Amanda C Hahn
3Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, USA.
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Iris J Holzleitner
3Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, USA.
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Junpeng Lao
4Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Lisa M DeBruine
1Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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David R Feinberg
5Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster Univeristy, Ontario, Canada.
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Benedict C Jones
1Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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Abstract

Objectives Recent research on the signal value of masculine physical characteristics in men has focused on the possibility that such characteristics are valid cues of physical strength. However, evidence that sexually dimorphic vocal characteristics are correlated with physical strength is equivocal. Consequently, we undertook a further test for possible relationships between physical strength and masculine vocal characteristics.

Methods We tested the putative relationships between White UK (N=115) and Chinese (N=106) participants’ handgrip strength (a widely used proxy for general upper-body strength) and five sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices: fundamental frequency (F0), fundamental frequency’s standard deviation (F0-SD), formant dispersion (Df), formant position (Pf), and estimated vocal-tract length (VTL).

Results Analyses revealed no clear evidence that stronger individuals had more masculine voices.

Conclusions Our results do not support the hypothesis that masculine vocal characteristics are a valid cue of physical strength.

Footnotes

  • This research was supported by a European Research Council Grant OCMATE (282655) awarded to Benedict C. Jones

  • Data and analysis files are publicly available at https://osf.io/na6be/

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No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices
Chengyang Han, Hongyi Wang, Vanessa Fasolt, Amanda C Hahn, Iris J Holzleitner, Junpeng Lao, Lisa M DeBruine, David R Feinberg, Benedict C Jones
bioRxiv 227165; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/227165
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No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices
Chengyang Han, Hongyi Wang, Vanessa Fasolt, Amanda C Hahn, Iris J Holzleitner, Junpeng Lao, Lisa M DeBruine, David R Feinberg, Benedict C Jones
bioRxiv 227165; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/227165

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