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Dear Colleagues,
The link below leads to a digital reprint of a recent publication entitled "Hearing Sex at the Cocktail Party: Biased Sex Ratios Influence
Vocal Attractiveness". The paper appears in the new journal "Auditory Perception & Cognition".
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Abstract:
Visual exposure to unbalanced sex ratios influences perceived
facial attractiveness for opposite-sex faces. When opposite-sex
faces are scarce they are rated as more attractive than when
they are plentiful. The current work examines a vocal-auditory
analog of this effect. Participants were assigned to either a high
or low opposite-sex vocal exposure condition and reported summary
statistics by estimating the percentage of male and female
voices in an array of simultaneous talkers. Participants then rated
the attractiveness of individual opposite-sex voices. Those in the
low opposite-sex exposure condition rated subsequent individual
voices of the opposite sex as significantly more attractive than
those who were in the high opposite-sex exposure condition. The
findings demonstrate that a core visuo-perceptual aspect of mate
selection preference also occurs in the auditory domain. The
results are consistent with the idea that the attractiveness of
opposite-sex partners is an honest signal of fitness and involves
multimodal processes that are quickly modulated by the perceived___________________________
John G. Neuhoff
Professor
Department of Psychology
The College of Wooster
Associate Editor, Auditory Perception & Cognition
http://jneuhoff.com
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