TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
A1  - Uhlmann, Andreas
A1  - Herzberg, Meike
T1  - The voice gives it away
BT  - male and female pitch as a cue for gender stereotyping
JF  - Social psychology
N2  - Two experiments examined the impact of voice pitch on gender stereotyping. Participants listened to a text read by a female (Study 1; N = 171) or male (Study 2, N = 151) speaker, whose voice pitch was manipulated to be high or low. They rated the speaker on positive and negative facets of masculinity and femininity, competence, and likability. They also indicated their own gendered self-concept. High pitch was associated with the ascription of more feminine traits and greater likability. The high-pitch female speaker was rated as less competent, and the high-pitch male speaker was perceived as less masculine. Text content and participants' gendered self-concept did not moderate the pitch effect. The findings underline the importance of voice pitch for impression formation.
KW  - voice pitch
KW  - gender stereotypes
KW  - masculinity
KW  - femininity
KW  - likability
KW  - competence
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000441
SN  - 1864-9335
SN  - 2151-2590
VL  - 52
IS  - 2
SP  - 101
EP  - 113
PB  - Hogrefe & Huber
CY  - Bern
ER  -