美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-12-13
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(十二)月
英语课
You vote for politicians based on their views, right? That’s how it works in theory, but other facts can sway your votes like politician’s voice. Because a study showed that the deeper the voice, the more electable the candidate. And not just for men, deeper voice women have advantage over other women. Even when they’re running positions traditionally held by women, like the school board, or PTA president. So says the study in the journal Plos One.
Researchers play undergraduates recordings 1 like this:
I urge you to bought for me this November.
I urge you to bought for me this November.
Then they asked the students to vote for one of them for the school board for the PTA. And each marked an election, the deeper voice woman slapped about 70% of the votes. Women’s voices are naturally deepened with age. So researchers say we might be bias 2 to select older women as leaders.
And previous studies have showed that women with deeper voices are seen as much more competent, trustworth and strong. Margaret Thatcher 3 used that as her advantage, she was famously coached to deepen her voice.
So such a woman ahead of him again?
Other politicians might deal out to follow her lead, when they made their pitch to voters.
n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片
- a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
- old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
n.偏见，偏心，偏袒；vt.使有偏见
- They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
- He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。