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Say What? Your Voice Tells People How Tall You Are
Talk about a cool finding: You can tell the relative heights of others just by the sound of their voices, according to new research.
www.nationalgeographic.com
The US researchers recorded pairs of people of different heights as they read out identical sentences. They then played the tapes to listeners, who were asked to guess which of the two was the tallest. In a second experiment, listeners ranked five people from tallest to shortest, after hearing them read.
Despite not having any visual clues, they were able to distinguish the taller speaker almost two-thirds of the time. This is significantly more than would be expected through chance alone, the Acoustical Society of North America’s annual conference heard.
Researcher John Morton, of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, said: ‘Both males and females were equally able to discriminate and rank the heights of talkers of both genders.’
Stature is not the only feature we infer from a person’s voice.
For instance, research shows that deep-voiced men are preferred by women and particularly when they are at their most fertile.
It is thought that females subconsciously make a link between the pitch of a man’s voice, his masculinity and the quality of his genes.
This may explain other research which has shown that gravelly-toned men have the most children.
Men, in contrast, find high-pitched voices in women alluring as this suggests they are more subordinate, feminine, healthier and younger.
Studies also show that we associate deep voices with leadership potential – perhaps explaining why Margaret Thatcher had vocal training to make her sound more statesmanlike.
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