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| Title |
Towards a More Nuanced View of Vocal Attractiveness
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0088616 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Molly Babel, Grant McGuire, Joseph King |
| Abstract |
This study reports on male and female Californians' ratings of vocal attractiveness for 30 male and 30 female voices reading isolated words. While ratings by both sexes were highly correlated, males generally rated fellow males as less attractive than females did, but both females and males had similar ratings of female voices. Detailed acoustic analyses of multiple parameters followed by principal component analyses on vowel and voice quality measures were conducted. Relevant principal components, along with additional independent acoustic measures, were entered into regression models to assess which acoustic properties predict attractiveness ratings. These models suggest that a constellation of acoustic features which indicate apparent talker size and conformity to community speech norms contribute to perceived vocal attractiveness. These results suggest that judgments of vocal attractiveness are more complex than previously described. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 23 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 8 | 35% |
| United States | 2 | 9% |
| Spain | 2 | 9% |
| Belgium | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 9 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 70% |
| Scientists | 6 | 26% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 114 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 111 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 8% |
| Researcher | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 24 | 21% |
| Unknown | 26 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 29 | 25% |
| Linguistics | 22 | 19% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 14% |
| Unknown | 31 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 154. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 August 2023.
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#265,252
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#3,811
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#2,212
of 238,617 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#117
of 5,773 outputs
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