Perceptions of adults with childlike voices in two cultures |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, INF 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;2. Department of Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, INF 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;3. Department for Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at the University Hospital, Technical University Dresden, Germany;1. Medical University of Warsaw, Otolaryngology Department, Warszawa, Poland;2. Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Pathology, Warszawa, Poland;1. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA;2. The Jared Grantham Kidney Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA;3. Department of Pathobiology and Investigative Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA;4. Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;5. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
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| Abstract: | Two studies tested the hypothesis that adults with childlike voices would be perceived as having childlike psychological attributes. In Study 1, United States undergraduates listened to either 16 male or 16 female speakers reciting the English alphabet, and they rated psychological traits and vocal qualities of each speaker. The results revealed that speakers with vocal qualities perceived as childlike were also perceived as weaker, less competent, and warmer than their mature sounding counterparts, and these effects were independent of speakers' feminine vocal qualities, sex, and perceived age. Study 2 replicated Study 1, employing Korean undergraduates as subjects. The results revealed significant agreement between United States and Korean subjects' ratings of the United States speakers' traits. Moreover, the impact on trait ratings of a childlike voice was very similar for Korean and United States subjects. The results are discussed within a theoretical framework which argues that perceptions of adults with childlike voices may derive from the species-wide adaptive value of analogous reactions to the young. |
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