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A lover or a fighter? Opposing sexual selection pressures on men’s vocal pitch and facial hair
Lay Summary. Men’s optimum masculinity depends on whether they want to attract partners or compete with rivals. We found that men’s voice pitch was most at
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-> nonlinear means exactly that it’s *NOT* ‘the deeper the more attractive’
‘These results suggest that the optimal level of physical masculinity might differ depending on whether the outcome is social dominance or mate attraction’
-> meaning 96 Hz to have maximum attractiveness to women, lower voice than that is judged as more ‘dominant’, but not more attractive
The Hz of an average man is 120 Hz
The lower the voice, the higher men and women judged his dominance
Like with beards, which they tested in same study: the longer the beard, the higher the dominance
But it was not ‘the longer the beard, the more attractive’ (actually attractiveness-rating was nearly the same for attractiveness, from clean shaven to light to heavy stubble to beard)
“Although ratings of dominance increased linearly with increased facial hair growth or decreased voice pitch, attractiveness judgments were not obviously dependent on facial hair levels. The most attractive voices were those that were lowered by 25 Hz instead of 50 Hz, with an extrapolated maximum in attractiveness at 96 Hz.
That is, the optimum level of facial hair and voice pitch for male–male competition, assessed by ratings of dominance, differed significantly from the optimum level for mate attraction, assessed by ratings of attractiveness.
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My voice, using the app Vocular:
It says i have 71Hz voice depth, and average 89hz.
So i have less than 96HZ, which is supposed to be the ideal in the study.
So if I had a deeper voice, my voice would be more unattractive to women.