Voice of a woman: influence of interaction partner characteristics on cycle dependent vocal changes in women.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Research has shown that women's vocal characteristics change during the menstrual cycle. Further, evidence suggests that individuals alter their voices depending on the context, such as when speaking to a highly attractive person, or a person with a different social status. The present study aimed at investigating the degree to which women's voices change depending on the vocal characteristics of the interaction partner, and how any such changes are modulated by the woman's current menstrual cycle phase.

Methods

Forty-two naturally cycling women were recorded once during the late follicular phase (high fertility) and once during the luteal phase (low fertility) while reproducing utterances of men and women who were previously assessed to have either attractive o

SUBMITTER: Lobmaier JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11671799 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature