To demonstrate this, psychologist Jordan Raine from the University of Sussex (UK) and his colleagues conducted an experiment by recording the screams of actors at a film school in London. “We did a pilot test before and found that most people can’t scream comfortably. But actors, they do it very well, ” said Raine.
To start the experiment, the team of experts asked 31 men and 30 women to imagine they were engaged in a fight, then they would growl as if they were ready to fight and shout out loud phrases like “How many That’s enough, jump in!!!”. All events will be recorded. At the same time, the participants were also measured height and strength by testing traction through special instruments.
Men are more sensitive than women in determining height by voice.
The next step, the scientists took the recordings to other volunteers and asked them to predict whether the person with the voice was tall or short, and stronger or weaker than themselves. The results showed that in 88% of the tests, the men who heard the recordings of the screams were able to correctly predict the above figures. Meanwhile, this rate in women is 77%.
The data obtained after the tests show that it seems that men tend to underestimate the strength of a woman by their voice, while women, on the contrary, often overestimate it. of men than the real thing. However, in comparison, men are more sensitive than women in determining height through voice . Overall, height had no correlation to strength, but they were all linked to screaming.
According to the researchers, the reason that women are worse at predicting height may stem from a belief in the fact that the average height of men is always taller than women. However, the research results also partly show that body size does not seem to be the first choice when men choose a partner, but rather strength.