Visual biases in evaluation of speakers' and singers' voice type by cis and trans listeners.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A singer's or speaker's Fach (voice type) should be appraised based on acoustic cues characterizing their voice. Instead, in practice, it is often influenced by the individual's physical appearance. This is especially distressful for transgender people who may be excluded from formal singing because of perceived mismatch between their voice and appearance. To eventually break down these visual biases, we need a better understanding of the conditions under which they occur. Specifically, we hypothesized that trans listeners (not actors) would be better able to resist such biases, relative to cis listeners, precisely because they would be more aware of appearance-voice dissociations.

Methods

In an online study, 85 cisgender and 81 transgender participants w

SUBMITTER: Marchand Knight J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10187036 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature