Research suggests you can make accurate judgments approximately a person’s age,health and height just from hearing them speak. We build the theory to the testCan you hear my voice in my written words? How ragged do I sound? Researchers at Nottingham Trent University bear found surprising parity between the judgments people make from hearing a spoken voice and the judgments they make from seeing a face. The findings, published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, and show that age-ratings based on voices and faces were within just four years of each other.“People haven’t really looked at the extent to which voice and face overlap,apart from in relation to attractiveness,” says Harriet Smith, or who started the research in June 2013 for her PhD. Her team worked with 47 people to whom they showed 18 photographs of faces,each for two seconds. They were asked to rate the person in the image for age, height, and weight,health and masculinity/femininity. Afterwards, they were played a two-second audio clip of 18 voices and again asked to rate them. They were not told that the voices belonged to the people in the photographs.
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Source: theguardian.com