Attractiveness plays a central role in human non-verbal communication and has been
broadly examined in diverse subfields of contemporary psychology. Researchers have …

This chapter reviews studies on voice attractiveness from evolutionary, social, and cognitive
neuroscience perspectives. Taking this interdisciplinary approach, it explores what makes a …

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are
connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic …

The right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ) is consistently implicated in two cognitive
domains, attention and social cognitions. We conducted multi-modal connectivity-based …

Podcasts have been on the rise recently with both audience numbers and advertising
revenue increasing. Scholars have been scrutinizing the medium for quite some time …

Compelling evidence from many animal taxa indicates that male genitalia are often under
postcopulatory sexual selection for characteristics that increase a male's relative fertilization …

Evidence suggests that people can manipulate their vocal intonations to convey a host of
emotional, trait, and situational images. We asked 40 participants (20 men and 20 women) …

Previous research has shown that men prefer higher-pitched women's voices and women
prefer lower-pitched men's voices. However, both men and women can modulate their voice …

Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), deviation from perfect bilateral symmetry, is thought to reflect an
organism's relative inability to maintain stable morphological development in the face of …

Attractiveness plays an important role in social exchange and in the ability to attract potential
mates, especially for women. Several facial traits have been described as reliable indicators …