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Lowering the Pitch of Your Voice Makes You Feel More Powerful and Think More Abstractly

Lowering the Pitch of Your Voice Makes You Feel More Powerful and Think More Abstractly

meltingly Voice pitch may not only influence the listeners but also the speakers themselves. Based on the theories of embodied cognition and previous research on power, we tested whether lowering their pitch leads people to feel more powerful and think more abstractly. In three experiments, participants received instructions to read a text out loud with either a lower or a higher voice than usual. Subsequently, feelings of power (Experiments 1 and 2) and abstract thinking (Experiment 3) were assessed. Participants who lowered their voice pitch perceived themselves more as possessing more powerful traits (Experiments 1 and 2) and had a higher level of abstract thinking (Experiment 3) compared to participants who raised their voice pitch.

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  Research Paper
  Construal Level
  Power
  Vocal Pitch
 Eric van Dijk
 Farah Djalal
 Marielle Stel
 Pamela Smith
 Wilco van Dijk
  Social Psychological and Personality Science
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APA-Format Citation

Stel, M., Dijk, E. V., Smith, P. K., Dijk, W. W. V., & Djalal, F. M. (2012). Lowering the pitch of your voice makes you feel more powerful and think more abstractly. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(4), 497-502.

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