Faking it: Deliberately altered voice pitch and vocal attractiveness

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-136

  Fraccaro, Paul J ^a   O'Connor, Jillian J M ^a   Re, Daniel E ^b   Jones, Benedict C ^c   DeBruine, Lisa M ^c   Feinberg, David R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional honesty; Honest signal; Vocal attractiveness; Vocal dominance; Voice pitch

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTANT; DOMINANCE; FEMALE; MALE; SIGNAL; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84872319454     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

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