Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e32719. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032719. Epub 2012 Mar 5.
Manipulations of voice pitch have been shown to alter attractiveness ratings, but whether preferences extend to very low or very high voice pitch is unknown. Here, we manipulated voice pitch in averaged men's and women's voices by 2 Hz intervals to create a range of male and female voices speaking monopthong vowel sounds and spanning a range of frequencies from normal to very low and very high pitch. With these voices, we used the method of constant stimuli to measure preferences for voice. Nineteen university students (ages: 20-25) participated in three experiments. On average, men preferred high-pitched women's voices to low-pitched women's voices across all frequencies tested. On average, women preferred men's voices lowered in pitch, but did not prefer very low men's voices. The results of this study may reflect selection pressures for men's and women's voices, and shed light on a perceptual link between voice pitch and vocal attractiveness.
人们已经发现，改变音高可以改变吸引力评分，但人们是否喜欢非常低或非常高的音高还不得而知。在这里，我们通过 2Hz 的间隔来调整平均男性和女性声音的音高，创造出一系列使用单韵母发声、频率从正常到非常低和非常高的男性和女性的声音。使用这些声音，我们使用恒定刺激法来衡量对声音的偏好。19 名大学生（年龄：20-25 岁）参加了三个实验。平均而言，男性更喜欢高音调的女性声音，而不是低音调的女性声音，在所有测试的频率中都是如此。平均而言，女性更喜欢男性的声音调低调，但不喜欢非常低的男性声音。这项研究的结果可能反映了男性和女性声音的选择压力，并揭示了音高和声音吸引力之间的感知联系。
