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The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices
Vocal and facial cues typically co-occur in natural settings, and multisensory processing of voice and face relies on their synchronous presentation. Psychological research has examined various facial and vocal cues to attractiveness as well as to judgements of sexual dimorphism, health, and age. Ho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35874336 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911854 |
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author | Krumpholz, Christina Quigley, Cliodhna Ameen, Karsan Reuter, Christoph Fusani, Leonida Leder, Helmut |
author_facet | Krumpholz, Christina Quigley, Cliodhna Ameen, Karsan Reuter, Christoph Fusani, Leonida Leder, Helmut |
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description | Vocal and facial cues typically co-occur in natural settings, and multisensory processing of voice and face relies on their synchronous presentation. Psychological research has examined various facial and vocal cues to attractiveness as well as to judgements of sexual dimorphism, health, and age. However, few studies have investigated the interaction of vocal and facial cues in attractiveness judgments under naturalistic conditions using dynamic, ecologically valid stimuli. Here, we used short videos or audio tracks of females speaking full sentences and used a manipulation of voice pitch to investigate cross-modal interactions of voice pitch on facial attractiveness and related ratings. Male participants had to rate attractiveness, femininity, age, and health of synchronized audio-video recordings or voices only, with either original or modified voice pitch. We expected audio stimuli with increased voice pitch to be rated as more attractive, more feminine, healthier, and younger. If auditory judgements cross-modally influence judgements of facial attributes, we additionally expected the voice pitch manipulation to affect ratings of audiovisual stimulus material. We tested 106 male participants in a within-subject design in two sessions. Analyses revealed that voice recordings with increased voice pitch were perceived to be more feminine and younger, but not more attractive or healthier. When coupled with video recordings, increased pitch lowered perceived age of faces, but did not significantly influence perceived attractiveness, femininity, or health. Our results suggest that our manipulation of voice pitch has a measurable impact on judgements of femininity and age, but does not measurably influence vocal and facial attractiveness in naturalistic conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-93025892022-07-22 The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices Krumpholz, Christina Quigley, Cliodhna Ameen, Karsan Reuter, Christoph Fusani, Leonida Leder, Helmut Front Psychol Psychology Vocal and facial cues typically co-occur in natural settings, and multisensory processing of voice and face relies on their synchronous presentation. Psychological research has examined various facial and vocal cues to attractiveness as well as to judgements of sexual dimorphism, health, and age. However, few studies have investigated the interaction of vocal and facial cues in attractiveness judgments under naturalistic conditions using dynamic, ecologically valid stimuli. Here, we used short videos or audio tracks of females speaking full sentences and used a manipulation of voice pitch to investigate cross-modal interactions of voice pitch on facial attractiveness and related ratings. Male participants had to rate attractiveness, femininity, age, and health of synchronized audio-video recordings or voices only, with either original or modified voice pitch. We expected audio stimuli with increased voice pitch to be rated as more attractive, more feminine, healthier, and younger. If auditory judgements cross-modally influence judgements of facial attributes, we additionally expected the voice pitch manipulation to affect ratings of audiovisual stimulus material. We tested 106 male participants in a within-subject design in two sessions. Analyses revealed that voice recordings with increased voice pitch were perceived to be more feminine and younger, but not more attractive or healthier. When coupled with video recordings, increased pitch lowered perceived age of faces, but did not significantly influence perceived attractiveness, femininity, or health. Our results suggest that our manipulation of voice pitch has a measurable impact on judgements of femininity and age, but does not measurably influence vocal and facial attractiveness in naturalistic conditions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9302589/ /pubmed/35874336 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911854 Text en Copyright © 2022 Krumpholz, Quigley, Ameen, Reuter, Fusani and Leder. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Krumpholz, Christina Quigley, Cliodhna Ameen, Karsan Reuter, Christoph Fusani, Leonida Leder, Helmut The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices |
title | The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices |
title_full | The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices |
title_fullStr | The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices |
title_short | The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices |
title_sort | effects of pitch manipulation on male ratings of female speakers and their voices |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35874336 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911854 |
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