Report The Sound of Status: People Know High-Power Voices When They Hear Them

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Being in a position of power can fundamentally change the way you speak, altering basic acoustic properties of the voice, and other people are able to pick up on these vocal cues to know who is really in charge, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

We tend to focus on our words when we want to come across as powerful to others, but these findings suggest that basic acoustic cues also play an important role:

“Our findings suggest that whether it’s parents attempting to assert authority over unruly children, haggling between a car salesman and customer, or negotiations between heads of states, the sound of the voices involved may profoundly determine the outcome of those interactions,” says psychological scientist and lead researcher Sei Jin Ko of San Diego State University.

The researchers had long been interested in non-language-related properties of speech, but it was former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher that inspired them to investigate the relationship between acoustic cues and power.

“It was quite well known that Thatcher had gone through extensive voice coaching to exude a more authoritative, powerful persona,” explains Ko. “We wanted to explore how something so fundamental as power might elicit changes in the way a voice sounds, and how these situational vocal changes impact the way listeners perceive and behave toward the speakers.”

 
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How is it that all researchers from american universities ALWAYS have asian names?
Do you people, like, import smart asians or something? Cant you make your own scientists?
 

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How is it that all researchers from american universities ALWAYS have asian names?
Do you people, like, import smart asians or something? Cant you make your own scientists?

There is an actual reason. In Taiwan, we call some of the Chinese people, "暴發戶", or "Residents with high incomes".

Many of them Chinese students have a background with high incomes, about half of them paying for their tuition fees on their own. It's an effect that comes after the economic rise and growth in China.

The researchers, however, are from South Korea, which has similar people.
 

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How is it that all researchers from american universities ALWAYS have asian names?
Do you people, like, import smart asians or something? Cant you make your own scientists?
We do. Only ours do useful things, like space exploration and building more powerful weapons so as to more efficiently kill the likes of you. Not spend time trying to figure out how a 'powerful' person talks - we already know how they talk, I mean there are fucking text books on talking with authority. Among the first lessons in all of them are vocalization techniques.
 

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Varyne, all of the lastest articles about science that came from america featured some asian professor. You guys just aint good enough.
 
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