Vocal indicators of body size in men and women: a meta-analysis

2014/07/30 by Katarzyna Pisanski, Paul J. Fraccaro, Cara C. Tigue +8 · 209 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Acoustics #Analysis of variance #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Astrophysics #Audiology #Biology #Demography #Formant #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Mathematics #Medicine #Meta-analysis #Music and Audio Processing #Psychology #Sample size determination #Sexual dimorphism #Sexual selection #Speech recognition #Statistics #Variance (accounting) #Variation (astronomy) #Vocal tract #Vowel #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.06.011

published in Animal Behaviour 95, 89-99 (Elsevier BV)

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