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Women's voice pitch is negatively correlated with
health
risk factors. Journal of Evolutionary
Psychology.
J Vukovic, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, FG Smith & BC Jones
Previous studies have demonstrated that men prefer women’s voices with
relatively high pitch to those with low pitch, suggesting that men may
use voice pitch as a cue of women’s mate quality. However, evidence that
voice pitch is a cue to women’s long-term health is equivocal. Here we
present evidence that women’s average speaking voice pitch is negatively
correlated with a health risk index derived from principle component
analysis of various body measurements that are known to predict
long-term health outcomes in women (weight, body mass index, percentage
body fat, waist and hip circumference, and waist-hip ratio). Our results
suggest that voice pitch is a cue to women’s long-term health,
supporting mate-choice accounts of men’s preferences for raised pitch in
women’s voices. |
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