How Deep is Your Love?
Most of the time, manly voices get the girls. Why is it?
Dr Coren Apicella, an anthropologist of Harvard University, and Dr David Feinberg, a psychologist of Mc Master University, Ontario, studied the Hadzatribe of Tanzania one of the last hunter-gatherer cultures. Their study may help answer the question.
They played them recordings of both raised and lowered version of the same voice, and ask subjects which they preferred.
The study has shown that, women prefer men with deep voices as it signals dominance and good genes. Men with deeper voices attract women more than those with squeaky ones when they are at their most fertile. Deeper-voiced men are deemed better than hunters who offer more protection. Women are attracted to feminine-voiced men only during times of decreased fertility, such as when they are breastfeeding, demonstrating they experience shifts in their choices. The study also suggests that women with masculine voice were perceived to be better gatherers, while the feminine-voiced ones are opted as the best mates by men. Meanwhile, masculine-voiced men were deemed better hunters. Men find high-pitched voices in women more alluring, as this indicates that they are more subordinate, feminine, healthier and younger.
Vocal attractiveness is correlated with body and facial attractiveness. So, what’s your favorite pitch? How “Deep” is your love?
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