Are there vocal cues to human developmental stability? Relationships between facial fluctuating asymmetry and voice attractiveness.

ABSTRACT: Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), deviation from perfect bilateral symmetry, is thought to reflect an organism's relative inability to maintain stable morphological development in the face of environmental and genetic stressors. Previous research has documented negative relationships between FA and attractiveness judgments in humans, but scant research has explored relationships between the human voice and this putative marker of genetic quality in either sex. Only one study (and in women only) has explored relationships between vocal attractiveness and asymmetry of the face, a feature-rich trait space central in prior work on human genetic quality and mate choice. We therefore examined this relationship in three studies comprising 231 men and 240 women from two Western samples as well as Hadza

SUBMITTER: Hill AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8496875 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature