Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Stimuli produced by a female speaker with four different voice qualities, including modal, girlish, breathy and creaky, and three different pitches, were manipulated so that their formants were either more or less dispersed.Participants judged these stimuli on four scales (dominance, attractiveness, sexiness and youthfulness).Modal voice was highly rated for dominance.Creakiness was rated more highly for dominance than breathiness, and women rated creaky voice as more dominant than men.Breathiness was highly rated in voice judgments of attractiveness and sexiness, as was lowered pitch associated with breathiness.Girlish voice was highly rated for youthfulness, and women found girlish voices more attractive than men.Voices with a raised pitch and creaky voice quality also received relatively high youthfulness ratings.
Authors: Andrea G. Levitt, Margery Lucas
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2541909751