Many animals use vocalizations to judge one another's size and physical formidability when in competition for mates or other resources. Now, researchers have found that humans can use nonverbal vocal ...

Who knew? Researchers from UCLA report this finding in their article, "Weapons Make the Man (Larger): Formidability Is Represented as Size and Strength In Humans," published this week in the online ...

A new study published in Evolution and Human Behavior has found that people are surprisingly sensitive to small differences in how attractive or physically formidable others appear. Participants were ...

Many animals--including sea lions, red deer, and dogs--use vocalizations to judge one another's size and physical formidability when in competition for mates or other resources. Now, researchers ...