The voice gives it away
- 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.
| Verfasserangaben: | Barbara KrahéORCiDGND, Andreas Uhlmann, Meike Herzberg |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000441 |
| ISSN: | 1864-9335 |
| ISSN: | 2151-2590 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Social psychology |
| Untertitel (Englisch): | male and female pitch as a cue for gender stereotyping |
| Verlag: | Hogrefe & Huber |
| Verlagsort: | Bern |
| Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 25.02.2021 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 12.01.2023 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | competence; femininity; gender stereotypes; likability; masculinity; voice pitch |
| Band: | 52 |
| Ausgabe: | 2 |
| Seitenanzahl: | 13 |
| Erste Seite: | 101 |
| Letzte Seite: | 113 |
| Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Peer Review: | Referiert |
