Human Vocal Attractiveness as Signaled by Body Size Projection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Yi ^a   Lee, Albert ^a   Wu, Wing Li ^a   Liu, Xuan ^a   Birkholz, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCAL ATTRACTIVENESS; VOCALIZATION; VOICE; VOICE ANALYSIS; VOICE CHANGE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876522743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062397     Document Type: Article

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