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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Raine J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6146593 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
iScience 20180628
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 judg ...[more]