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Vocal characteristics of presidential candidates can predict the outcome of actual elections

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In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between presidential candidates' vocal characteristics and actual election outcomes in 51 presidential elections held across the world and found that winners had lower-pitched voices with less pitch variability.
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This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 2017-05-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Presidential election.

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A house of cards: bias in perception of body size mediates the relationship between voice pitch and perceptions of dominance

TL;DR: The authors found that the relationship between voice pitch and perceived dominance is not based on observation of real-world relationships between physical size and voice pitch, but rather based on a bias to perceive low-pitched voices as large people.
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Coding of Static Information in Terrestrial Mammal Vocal Signals

TL;DR: The body of research reviewed in this chapter illustrates how combining observational, acoustics, experimental, and comparative approaches enables researchers to draw general conclusions about the selection pressures driving the evolution of vocal production and perception in mammals.
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Presidential, But Not Prime Minister, Candidates With Lower Pitched Voices Stand a Better Chance of Winning the Election in Conservative Countries:

TL;DR: Investigating whether country-level ideology influences the relationship between candidate voice pitch and electoral outcomes of real elections found that candidates with lower pitched voices received more votes and had greater likelihood of winning the elections.
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Do Natural Disasters Affect Voting Behavior? Evidence from Croatian Floods.

TL;DR: Investigating whether voters are prone to punish politicians for events that are out of their control in the previously unstudied context of Croatia showed that, prior to matching, floods had an impact on voting behaviour in the 2014 and 2015 elections.
Dissertation

Évolution de la voix humaine : le rôle de la sélection sexuelle

TL;DR: In this article, the role fonctionnel de la voix humaine sous l'angle of the selection sexuelle is investigated, and it is shown that les preferences vocales ne sont pas universelles and quelles dependent de l'environnement culturel en question, and that the modulation vocale correspondant a un pattern dynamique of the voix en contexte interactionnel.
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