Survey Says…

Susan Hughes, an evolutionary psychologist from Albright College recently uncovered that people with voices deemed to be “sexy and attractive tend to have greater body symmetry upon close inspection, suggesting that what we hear in a person can greatly affect what we see in them.” The conclusion was not necessarily applicable to face symmetry which has long been held as the standard of beauty but of body symmetry which indicates mate attractiveness.

The study consisted of 100 people who listened to voices and rated the speaker’s approachability, dominance, healthiness, honesty, intelligence, likelihood to get dates, maturity, sexiness and warmth (also the key factors in mate selection) and were able to form a consensus based on these factors which people they believed to be sexy.

Our human systems of perception may be more advanced than previously thought, however, because no computer program has been able to create the same consensus as the study groups.

Can I Change?

How’s your phone voice? According to Dr. Hughes, our voices are formed in the first trimester yet change during puberty. We can probably change up our word choices, our inflections, even our accent but it sounds like our sexiness factor is already determined based on the formation of our vocal chords. No one likes their voice, but it is interesting that callers may be subconsciously sizing you up based on the same characteristics as sizing up a mate.

Sexy food for thought. Oh, and please don’t call or skype me to test my phone voice to size me up… I already brought sexy back.

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