Highlights•Low voice pitch conveys impressions related to social power.•We consider why
sex differences in voice pitch evolved in humans and other primates.•Evidence suggests that …

The dual mating strategy hypothesis proposes that women's preferences for uncommitted
sexual relationships with men displaying putative fitness cues increase during the high …

Recent studies have called into question the idea that facial masculinity is a condition-
dependent male ornament that indicates immunocompetence in humans. We add to this …

This chapter reviews studies on voice attractiveness from evolutionary, social, and cognitive
neuroscience perspectives. Taking this interdisciplinary approach, it explores what makes a …

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 …

Previous research has indicated that facial attractiveness may provide cues to the
functioning of the immune system. Mating with individuals who have a more effective …

Human voice pitch is highly sexually dimorphic and eminently quantifiable, making it an
ideal phenotype for studying the influence of sexual selection. In both traditional and …

Pitch is the most perceptually salient feature of the voice, yet it is approximately five standard
deviations lower in men than in women, a degree of sexual dimorphism exceeding that of all …

The human voice is often considered to be a secondary sexual characteristic that signals
underlying information about the immunocompetence of the speaker (ie the …

It has long been hypothesized that attractiveness provides a cue to a target's health and
immunocompetence. However, much of the research testing this hypothesis has relied on a …