Female voice frequency in the context of dominance and attractiveness perception

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-59

  Borkowska, Barbara ^a   Pawlowski, Boguslaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Dominance; Fundamental frequency; Sexual signal; Voice perception; Voice pitch; Women's voice

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BODY SIZE; DOMINANCE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIGNAL; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 79958792132     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.024     Document Type: Article

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