High voice pitch mitigates the aversiveness of antisocial cues in men's speech

2018 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian J. M. O'Connor ◽  
Pat Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Voice Pitch ◽  
High Voice

scholarly journals Preferences for Very Low and Very High Voice Pitch in Humans

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. e32719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Re ◽  
Jillian J. M. O'Connor ◽  
Patrick J. Bennett ◽  
David R. Feinberg
Keyword(s):  
Voice Pitch ◽  
High Voice ◽  
Very High

scholarly journals Voice Cues Influence Children’s Assessment of Adults’ Occupational Competence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Cartei ◽  
Jane Oakhill ◽  
Alan Garnham ◽  
Robin Banerjee ◽  
David Reby
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Male Occupations

AbstractThe adult voice is a strong bio-social marker for masculinity and femininity. In this study we investigated whether children make gender stereotypical judgments about adults’ occupational competence on the basis of their voice. Forty-eight 8- to 10- year olds were asked to rate the competence of adult voices that varied in vocal masculinity (by artificially manipulating voice pitch) and were randomly paired with 9 occupations (3 stereotypically male, 3 female, 3 gender-neutral). In line with gender stereotypes, children rated men as more competent for the male occupations and women as more competent for the female occupations. Moreover, children rated speakers of both sexes with feminine (high-pitched) voices as more competent for the female occupations. Finally, children rated men (but not women) with masculine (low-pitched) voices as more competent for stereotypically male occupations. Our results thus indicate that stereotypical voice-based judgments of occupational competence previously identified in adults are already present in children, and likely to affect how they consider adults and interact with them in their social environment.

Four Dickinson Songs for High Voice and Piano

Notes ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
John McCauley ◽  
Lee Hoiby ◽  
Emily Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
High Voice ◽  
Voice And Piano

scholarly journals Wolsink et al., Dual Cognitive Pathways to Voice Quality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Wolsink ◽  
Deanne Den Hartog ◽  
Frank Belschak ◽  
Ilja Gabriel Sligte
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Memory Capacity ◽  
Quality Information ◽  
Voice Behavior ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
Cognitive Elaboration ◽  
High Voice ◽  
High Quality Information ◽  
Organization Quality

We investigate the involvement of Working Memory Capacity (WMC, the cognitive resource necessary for controlled elaborate thinking) in voice behavior (speaking up with suggestions, problems, and opinions to change the organization). While scholars assume voice requires elaborate thinking, some empirical evidence suggests voice might be more automatic. To explain this discrepancy, we distinguish between voice quantity (frequency of voice) and voice quality (novelty and value of voiced information) and propose that WMC is important for voice quality, but not voice quantity. Furthermore, we propose that people who voice often need less WMC to reach high voice quality than people who voice rarely. To test our ideas, we conducted three studies: a between-participant lab-study, a within-participant experiment, and a multi-source field-study. These studies confirmed that voice quantity is unrelated to WMC. Voice quality is positively related to WMC, but only for those who rarely voice. This indicates that the decision to voice (quantity) might be more automatic and intuitive than often assumed, whereas its value to the organization (quality), relies more on the degree of cognitive elaboration of the voicer. It also suggests that frequent and infrequent voicers use distinct cognitive pathways to voice high quality information: frequent voicers improvise, while infrequent voicers elaborate.

Dominance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in human voice pitch

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Andrew Puts ◽  
Steven J.C. Gaulin ◽  
Katherine Verdolini
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Human Voice

scholarly journals The pitch of babies’ cries predicts their voice pitch at age 5

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 20180065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Levrero ◽  
Nicolas Mathevon ◽  
Katarzyna Pisanski ◽  
Erik Gustafsson ◽  
David Reby
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Ring Finger ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Longitudinal Study Design ◽  
The Right

Voice pitch (fundamental frequency, F 0 ) is a key dimension of our voice that varies between sexes after puberty, and also among individuals of the same sex both before and after puberty. While a recent longitudinal study indicates that inter-individual differences in voice pitch remain stable in men during adulthood and may even be determined before puberty (Fouquet et al. 2016 R. Soc. open sci. 3 , 160395. ( doi:10.1098/rsos.160395 )), whether these differences emerge in infancy remains unknown. Here, using a longitudinal study design, we investigate the hypothesis that inter-individual differences in F 0 are already present in the cries of pre-verbal babies. While based on a small sample ( n = 15), our results indicate that the F 0 of babies' cries at 4 months of age may predict the F 0 of their speech utterances at 5 years of age, explaining 41% of the inter-individual variance in voice pitch at that age in our sample. We also found that the right-hand ratio of the length of their index to ring finger (2D : 4D digit ratio), which has been proposed to constitute an index of prenatal testosterone exposure, was positively correlated with F 0 at both 4 months and 5 years of age. These findings suggest that a substantial proportion of between-individual differences in voice pitch, which convey important biosocial information about speakers, may partly originate in utero and thus already be present soon after birth.

Institutional Structures and the Prevalence of Foreign Ownership of Firms

2018 ◽  
pp. 455-479
Author(s):  
Otuo Serebour Agyemang
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Significant Positive Association ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Regulatory Quality ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
High Voice

This chapter examines how country-level institutional structures influence the prevalence of foreign ownership of firms in Africa. It reinforces the new institutional economics perspective by empirically highlighting that institutional structures influence the prevalence of foreign ownership of companies in an economy. Using archival data from 39 African economies, the authors found that there is a significant positive association between regulatory quality and foreign ownership prevalence. Also, foreign ownership is prevalent in African countries that are politically stable and embrace rule of law. However, the authors found that countries with high voice and accountability structures are associated with low foreign ownership prevalence.

scholarly journals Voice pitch modulation in human mate choice

2018 ◽  
Vol 285 (1893) ◽  
pp. 20181634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pisanski ◽  
Anna Oleszkiewicz ◽  
Justyna Plachetka ◽  
Marzena Gmiterek ◽  
David Reby
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Mate Preferences ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Vocal Behaviour ◽  
Vocal Apparatus ◽  
Social Attributions ◽  
Voice Modulation

Inter-individual differences in human fundamental frequency ( F 0, perceived as voice pitch) predict mate quality and reproductive success, and affect listeners' social attributions. Although humans can readily and volitionally manipulate their vocal apparatus and resultant voice pitch, for instance, in the production of speech sounds and singing, little is known about whether humans exploit this capacity to adjust the non-verbal dimensions of their voices during social (including sexual) interactions. Here, we recorded full-length conversations of 30 adult men and women taking part in real speed-dating events and tested whether their voice pitch (mean, range and variability) changed with their personal mate choice preferences and the overall desirability of each dating partner. Within-individual analyses indicated that men lowered the minimum pitch of their voices when interacting with women who were overall highly desired by other men. Men also lowered their mean voice pitch on dates with women they selected as potential mates, particularly those who indicated a mutual preference (matches). Interestingly, although women spoke with a higher and more variable voice pitch towards men they selected as potential mates, women lowered both voice pitch parameters towards men who were most desired by other women and whom they also personally preferred. Between-individual analyses indicated that men in turn preferred women with lower-pitched voices, wherein women's minimum voice pitch explained up to 55% of the variance in men's mate preferences. These results, derived in an ecologically valid setting, show that individual- and group-level mate preferences can interact to affect vocal behaviour, and support the hypothesis that human voice modulation functions in non-verbal communication to elicit favourable judgements and behaviours from others, including potential mates.

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