Publications

Publication details [#61658]

Zhang, Jinguang. 2016. A Higher-Than-Average Female Voice Can Cause Young Adult Female Listeners to Think About Aggression More. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 35 (6) : 645–666.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aggression | attraction | gender | listener | pitch

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Female listeners appear more inimical towards women with higher pitched voices as far as they constitute more menacing mate rivals. This backs sexual selection theory, defies vocal charm stereotype, and presents a technique to help uphold the probity of female voice pitch as mate charm cue.