Krumpholz Christina, Quigley Cliodhna, Ameen Karsan, Reuter Christoph, Fusani Leonida, Leder Helmut
Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 7;13:911854. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911854. eCollection 2022.
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.
在自然环境中，声音和面部线索通常同时出现，对声音和面部的多感官处理依赖于它们的同步呈现。心理学研究已经考察了各种面部和声音线索对吸引力以及性别差异、健康和年龄判断的影响。然而，很少有研究使用动态的、具有生态效度的刺激，在自然主义条件下探究声音和面部线索在吸引力判断中的相互作用。在这里，我们使用女性说出完整句子的短视频或音频轨道，并通过操纵音高来研究音高对面部吸引力及相关评分的跨模态相互作用。男性参与者必须对同步的音频 - 视频记录或仅声音的吸引力、女性气质、年龄和健康进行评分，声音要么是原始音高，要么是经过修改的音高。我们预期音高增加的音频刺激会被评为更有吸引力、更具女性气质、更健康和更年轻。如果听觉判断跨模态地影响对面部属性的判断，我们还预期音高操纵会影响视听刺激材料的评分。我们在一个被试内设计的两个阶段中测试了106名男性参与者。分析表明，音高增加的语音记录被认为更具女性气质和更年轻，但并非更有吸引力或更健康。当与视频记录结合时，音高增加会降低对面部年龄的感知，但不会显著影响对面部吸引力、女性气质或健康的感知。我们的结果表明，我们对音高的操纵对女性气质和年龄的判断有可测量的影响，但在自然主义条件下不会对声音和面部吸引力产生可测量的影响。
