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Darwin’s sexual selection hypothesis revisited: Musicality increases sexual attraction in both sexes
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Darwin, music and evolution: New insights from family correspondence on
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Attractiveness Ratings for Musicians and Non-musicians: An Evolutionary-Psychology Perspective
resolves10.1093/beheco/arq173
Mate choice for cognitive traits: a review of the evidence in nonhuman vertebrates
resolves10.1037/0022-3514.58.2.250
Continuity and change: Assortative marriage and the consistency of personality in adulthood.
resolves10.1098/rspb.2014.0403
Menstrual cycle phase alters women's sexual preferences for composers of more complex music
resolves10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.06.005
The relative importance of the face and body in judgments of human physical attractiveness
resolves10.3389/fpsyg.2022.862385
Darwin Versus Wallace: Esthetic Evolution and Preferential Mate Choice
resolves10.1177/1029864908012001081
If music is the food of love, what about survival and reproductive success?
resolves10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.11.033
The relationship between testosterone and vocal frequencies in human males
resolves10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859108
Enhanced Originality of Ideas in Women During Ovulation: A Within-Subject Design Study
resolves10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01351
Emotional pictures and sounds: a review of multimodal interactions of emotion cues in multiple domains
resolves10.1177/1029864909013002131
Did Neanderthals and other early humans sing? Seeking the biological roots of music in the territorial advertisements of primates, lions, hyenas, and wolves
resolves10.1016/j.tics.2007.08.008
Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on development
resolves10.22330/heb/323/063-084
Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll: Evidence Supporting the Storied Trilogy
resolves10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01210.x
Cognition and the Evolution of Music: Pitfalls and Prospects
resolves10.1080/00224545.2011.586654
More Than Just a Pretty Face and a Hot Body: Multiple Cues in Mate-Choice
resolves10.5334/jeps.bb
Why Creativity is Sexy: A Review of the Evidence of Sexual Selection for Creative Abilities in Humans
resolves10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00863
Calculating and reporting effect sizes to facilitate cumulative science: a practical primer for t-tests and ANOVAs
resolves10.1177/1350508416689095
‘It’s a man’s man’s man’s world’: Music groupies and the othering of women in the world of rock
resolves10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.10.005
Musical improvisation skill in a prospective partner is associated with mate value and preferences, consistent with sexual selection and parental investment theory: Implications for the origin of music
resolves10.1163/156853909X427704
Evidence to suggest that nightclubs function as human sexual display grounds
resolves10.1371/journal.pone.0072412
Examining Complexity across Domains: Relating Subjective and Objective Measures of Affective Environmental Scenes, Paintings and Music
resolves10.1016/j.paid.2017.12.027
Exploring aesthetic experiences of females: Affect-related traits predict complexity and arousal responses to music and affective pictures
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Misattribution of musical arousal increases sexual attraction towards opposite-sex faces in females
resolves10.1007/BF00995420
Effects of musically evoked affect on women's interpersonal attraction toward and perceptual judgments of physical attractiveness of men
resolves10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00278
Sex Differences in Music: A Female Advantage at Recognizing Familiar Melodies
resolves10.1080/1047840X.2013.817937
Mutual Mate Choice Models as the Red Pill in Evolutionary Psychology: Long Delayed, Much Needed, Ideologically Challenging, and Hard to Swallow
resolves10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.02.004
Did sexual selection shape human music? Testing predictions from the sexual selection hypothesis of music evolution using a large genetically informative sample of over 10,000 twins
resolves10.1525/mp.2012.30.1.71
When the Eye Listens: A Meta-analysis of How Audio-visual Presentation Enhances the Appreciation of Music Performance
resolves10.1136/jmg.2007.056366
Genome-wide linkage scan for loci of musical aptitude in Finnish families: evidence for a major locus at 4q22
resolves10.1007/s10519-015-9774-y
The Nature and Nurture of Melody: A Twin Study of Musical Pitch and Rhythm Perception
resolves10.1080/1047840X.2013.804899
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences?
resolves10.1073/pnas.1210344109
Reduced sensitivity to emotional prosody in congenital amusia rekindles the musical protolanguage hypothesis
resolves10.1111/j.1475-6811.2012.01405.x
Perceived, not actual, similarity predicts initial attraction in a live romantic context: Evidence from the speed‐dating paradigm
resolves10.5178/lebs.2012.18
Guitar increases male facebook attractiveness: Preliminary support for the sexual selection theory of music
resolves10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02029
Vocal Parameters of Speech and Singing Covary and Are Related to Vocal Attractiveness, Body Measures, and Sociosexuality: A Cross-Cultural Study
resolves10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.005
Positive association between vocal and facial attractiveness in women but not in men: A cross-cultural study
resolves10.3389/fpsyg.2022.925862
Evolution of Artistic and Athletic Propensities: Testing of Intersexual Selection and Intrasexual Competition
resolves10.1177/0956797620904154
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication
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Creating beauty: creativity compensates for low physical attractiveness when individuals assess the attractiveness of social and romantic partners
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no DOI — not checkedHow Musical is Man?
no DOI — not checkedHuman Universals
no DOI — not checkedStatistical Power Analysis for the Behavioural Sciences
no DOI — not checkedThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
no DOI — not checkedAntecedents of the temporal arts in early mother-infant interaction
no DOI — not checkedData Analysis for Experimental Design
no DOI — not checkedThe Principles of Psychology
no DOI — not checkedHow mate choice shaped human nature: a review of sexual selection and human evolution
no DOI — not checkedEvolution of human music through sexual selection
no DOI — not checkedHow the Mind Works
no DOI — not checkedExplaining Culture
no DOI — not checkedTesttheoretische Analysen des Mehrdimensionalen Befindlichkeitsfragebogen (MDBF)
no DOI — not checkedSex differences in aspects of musicality in a Brazilian sample: adaptative hypotheses
no DOI — not checkedEvolution of artistic and aesthetic propensities through female competitive ornamentation
no DOI — not checkedBiomusicology: Neurophysiological, Neuropsychological and Evolutionary Perspectives on Origins and Purposes of Music
no DOI — not checkedThe Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle
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