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Watch Dr. Arnocky describe recent research findings surrounding the evolution of human mate-poaching on CTV News North

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7 days ago

Our new co-authored paper in Scientific Reports led by researchers at Boston U on testosterone therapy and vocal masculinization in transgender menwww.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82134-2 ...

Testosterone therapy masculinizes speech and gender presentation in transgender men

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Voice is one of the most noticeably dimorphic traits in humans and plays a central role in gender presentation. Transgender males seeking to align internal identity and external gender expression frequently undergo testosterone (T) therapy to masculinize their voices and other traits. We aimed to de...

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2 weeks ago

Discover Magazine covering some research from our lab www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-weird-quirks-of-the-male-libido ...

The Weird Quirks of the Male Libido

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The refractory period, the prolactin myth and other mysteries of a man’s sex drive.

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Human Evolution Laboratory

2 weeks ago

A new collaboration with researchers at Boston U examining whether listeners can assess men's health from vocal cueswww.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513820300945#:~:text=Men's%20voices%20may%20provide%20cues,associated%20with%20perceivable%20voice%20parameters.&text=However%2C%20speakers'%20self%2Dreported,of%20health%20made%20by%20listeners. ...

Can listeners assess men's self-reported health from their voice?

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Men's voices may provide cues to overall condition; however, little research has assessed whether health status is reliably associated with perceivabl...

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Human Evolution Laboratory

3 weeks ago

Happy Darwin Day 2021! “From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species ...

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Human Evolution Laboratory

4 weeks ago

New collaborative research with Graham Albert at Boston U examining dominance ratings of rapidly presented masculinized and feminized facesonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ab.21941 ...

Observers use facial masculinity to make physical dominance assessments following 100‐ms exposure

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Research has consistently demonstrated that faces manipulated to appear more masculine are perceived as more dominant. These studies, however, have used forced‐choice paradigms, in which a pair of ma...

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