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The researchers, at Pennsylvania State University, believe that women's high voices may signal youth and fertility to men who are listening, in the same way that men's deep voices are believed to signal dominance。
來自美國賓夕法尼亞州州立大學的研究人員認為，女性的高音調會給男性留下年輕、生育能力好的印象，這與嗓音低沉的男性似乎更有主導力這一印象形成的原因是一致的。
"These results support our prediction that women use vocal characteristics to track the threat potential of their competitors," said David Puts, the anthropologist who led the study. "They shed new light on how men choose and women compete for mates. We found that women were most threatened by a high, youthful-sounding voice in another woman."
“研究結果證明了我們的預測是對的，即女性會通過聲音特征來判斷自己競爭對手的威脅程度，”該項研究領導人、人類學家大衛-樸茨說道?！把芯拷Y果為男人如何選擇伴侶和女人如何爭奪伴侶提供了更多線索。我們發現女人最容易因另一個女人高亢、聽起來較為年輕的嗓音感受到威脅?！?/FONT>
"Because men prefer feminine voices, one might also expect that women vying for the attentions of men would elevate vocal femininity by raising the pitch and timbre of their voices," the researchers add。
“因為男性更喜歡女性化嗓音，我們也可據此推測，那些想吸引男性注意力的女性會提高音調、修飾音色，從而提升自己嗓音的女性魅力，”研究人員補充說。
