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Forming social impressions from voices in native and foreign languages
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Author:
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Baus, Cristina; McAleer, Phil; Marcoux, Katherine; Belin, Pascal; Costa, Albert, 1970-
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We form very rapid personality impressions about speakers on hearing a single word. This implies
that the acoustical properties of the voice (e.g., pitch) are very powerful cues when forming social
impressions. Here, we aimed to explore how personality impressions for brief social utterances
transfer across languages and whether acoustical properties play a similar role in driving personality
impressions. Additionally, we examined whether evaluations are similar in the native and a foreign
language of the listener. In two experiments we asked Spanish listeners to evaluate personality traits
from different instances of the Spanish word “Hola” (Experiment 1) and the English word “Hello”
(Experiment 2), native and foreign language respectively. The results revealed that listeners across
languages form very similar personality impressions irrespective of whether the voices belong to
the native or the foreign language of the listener. A social voice space was summarized by two main
personality traits, one emphasizing valence (e.g., trust) and the other strength (e.g., dominance).
Conversely, the acoustical properties that listeners pay attention to when judging other’s personality
vary across languages. These results provide evidence that social voice perception contains certain
elements invariant across cultures/languages, while others are modulated by the cultural/linguistic
background of the listener. |
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This study was funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI, National Research Agency) and Fondo
Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER, European Regional Development Fund) under projects PSI2017-
84539-P and PSI2014-52181-P, the Catalan Government (2017 SGR 268), and the European Union’s Seventh
Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no.
613465 - AThEME. CB was supported by the People Program (Marie Curie Actions, FP7-PEOPLE 2014–2016)
under REA agreement n°623845 and now is supported by the Beatriu de Pinòs program (AGAUR, BP00381). PB
was supported by supported by grant AJE201214 from French Foundation for Medical Research, and grants
ANR-16-CONV-0002 (Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain), ANR-11-LABX-0036 (Brain and
Language Research Institute) and the Excellence Initiative of Aix-Marseille University (A*MIDEX). |
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Nature Research
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