No evidence for an association between facial fluctuating asymmetry and vocal attractiveness in men or women
| Autor: | Tobias L. Kordsmeyer, Yasmin T. K. Thies, Omid Ekrami, Julia Stern, Christoph Schild, Cristina Spoiala, Peter Claes, Stefan Van Dongen, Lars Penke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cultural Studies
3D face scans Geometric morphometrics Developmental instability 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Facial fluctuating asymmetry 050105 experimental psychology Anthropology Vocal attractiveness 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Human medicine Applied Psychology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Evolutionary human sciences Kordsmeyer, T L, Thies, Y T K, Ekrami, O, Stern, J, Schild, C, Spoiala, C, Claes, P, Dongen, S V & Penke, L 2020, ' No evidence for an association between facial fluctuating asymmetry and vocal attractiveness in men or women ', Evolutionary Human Sciences, vol. 2, e35 . https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.36 |
| ISSN: | 2513-843X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/ehs.2020.36 |
| Popis: | Facial fluctuating asymmetry (FA), presumably a proxy measure of developmental instability, has been proposed to inversely relate to vocal attractiveness, which may convey information on heritable fitness benefits. Using an improved method of measuring facial FA, we sought to replicate two recent studies that showed an inverse correlation of facial FA with vocal attractiveness. In two samples of men ( N = 165) and women ( N = 157), we investigated the association of automatically measured facial FA based on 3D face scans with male and female observer-rated attractiveness of voice recordings. No significant associations were found for men or women, also when controlling for facial attractiveness, age, and body mass index. Equivalence tests show that effect sizes were significantly smaller than previous meta-analytic effects, providing robust evidence against a link of facial FA with vocal attractiveness. Thus, our study contradicts earlier findings that vocal attractiveness may signal genetic quality in humans via an association with FA. |
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