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Appendix A

SIMULATED VOCAL CUES AND PERSONALITY STEROTYPES

Simulated
Vocal Cues

 
Speakers

 
Stereotyped Perceptions


Breathiness

Males

Females

Younger, more artistic

More feminine, prettier, more petite, more effervescent, more high-strung, and shallower


Thinness

Males

Females

Did not alter listener’s image of the speaker; no significant correlations

Increased social, physical, emotional, and mental immaturity; increased sense of humor and sensitivity


Flatness

Males

Females

More masculine, more sluggish, colder, more withdrawn

More masculine, more sluggish, colder, more withdrawn


Nasality

Males

Females

A wide array of socially undesirable

characteristics

A wide array of socially undesirable

characteristics


Tenseness

Males

Females

Older, more unyielding, cantankerous

Younger; more emotional, feminine, high-strung;  less intelligent


Throatiness

Males

Females

Older; more realistic, mature; sophisticated; well adjusted

Less intelligent; more masculine; lazier; more boorish, unemotional, ugly, sickly, careless, inartistic, naïve, humble, neurotic, quite, uninteresting, apathetic.  In short, “Cloddish or oafish” (Addington)


Orotundity

(Roundness
of Tone)

Males


Females

More energetic, healthy, artistic, sophisticated, proud, interesting, enthusiastic.  In short, Ahardy and aesthetically inclined.”  (Addington)

Increased liveliness, gregariousness, esthetic sensitivity, and “increasingly proud and humorless” (Addington)


Increased

Rate

Males

Females

More animated and extroverted

More animated and extroverted


Increased

Pitch Variety

Males


Females

More dynamic, feminine, aesthetically inclined

More dynamic and extroverted



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