Linking voice pitch to fighting success in male amateur mixed martial arts athletes and boxers
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Linking voice pitch to fighting success in male amateur mixed martial arts athletes and boxers. / Schild, Christoph; Zettler, Ingo.
I: Evolutionary Human Sciences, Bind 3, E46, 10.09.2021.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Linking voice pitch to fighting success in male amateur mixed martial arts athletes and boxers
AU - Schild, Christoph
AU - Zettler, Ingo
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2021/9/10
Y1 - 2021/9/10
N2 - Whereas voice pitch is strongly linked to people's perceptions in contexts of sexual selection, such as attractiveness and dominance, evidence that links voice pitch to actual behavior or formidability of a speaker is sparse and mixed. In this registered report, we investigated how male speakers' voice pitch is linked to fighting success in a dataset comprising 135 (amateur) mixed martial arts and 189 (amateur) boxing fights. Based on the assumption that voice pitch is an honest signal of formidability, we expected lower voice pitch to be linked to higher fighting success. Results indicated no significant relation between a fighter's voice pitch, as directly measured before a fight, and successive fighting success in both mixed martial arts fighters and boxers.
AB - Whereas voice pitch is strongly linked to people's perceptions in contexts of sexual selection, such as attractiveness and dominance, evidence that links voice pitch to actual behavior or formidability of a speaker is sparse and mixed. In this registered report, we investigated how male speakers' voice pitch is linked to fighting success in a dataset comprising 135 (amateur) mixed martial arts and 189 (amateur) boxing fights. Based on the assumption that voice pitch is an honest signal of formidability, we expected lower voice pitch to be linked to higher fighting success. Results indicated no significant relation between a fighter's voice pitch, as directly measured before a fight, and successive fighting success in both mixed martial arts fighters and boxers.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Voice pitch
KW - Fundamental frequency
KW - Formidability
KW - Mixed martial arts
KW - Boxing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115136193&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/ehs.2021.45
DO - 10.1017/ehs.2021.45
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85115136193
VL - 3
JO - Evolutionary Human Sciences
JF - Evolutionary Human Sciences
SN - 2513-843X
M1 - E46
ER -
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