<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Šebesta, Pavel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kleisner, Karel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tureček, Petr</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kočnar, Tomáš</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Akoko, Robert Mbe</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Třebický, Vít</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Havlíček, Jan</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Voices of Africa: acoustic predictors of human male vocal attractiveness</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Animal Behaviour</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Animal Behaviour</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">attractiveness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">body mass index</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">formant</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fundamental frequency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">human</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">male</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sexual selection</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">undernutrition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">voice</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">y harmonics-to-noise ratio</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jan-05-2017</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0003347217300866</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">127</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">205 - 211</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Robust evidence shows that voice quality affects various social interactions, including mate preferences. Previous research found that male voices perceived as attractive are characterized by low voice pitch, lower or sexually typical formants and relatively high breathiness. These features tend to be seen as markers of an individual&amp;#39;s quality as a potential mate. Although there are considerable differences between languages in vocal parameters that could influence the perceived attractiveness, the above-mentioned findings rely on research based mainly on participants from European or North American countries. In our study, we therefore tested the main acoustic predictors of vocal attractiveness using two male samples from Cameroon and Namibia. Standardized vocal recordings were then assessed for vocal attractiveness by a panel of female raters from the Czech Republic. Our results show that in the Cameroonian voices, fundamental frequency was strongly negatively associated with perceived vocal attractiveness. In the Namibian sample, however, it was not the fundamental frequency but lower mean formants and harmonics-to-noise ratio that were negatively associated with vocal attractiveness. This pattern may be partly attributed to differences in morphological characteristics such as the body mass index, indicating variation across individual populations.&lt;/p&gt;
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