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Who has a better auditory gaydar? Sexual orientation categorization by heterose...
Fasoli, F.; Maass, A.; Berghella, L.Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people are supposed to be better at gaydar than heterosexual. Across two studies we examined auditory gaydar performed by LGB and heterosexual listeners. In Study 1 participants (n = 127) listened to male and female speakers (n = 10) and judged their sexual orientation on a binary choice (gay/lesbian vs. heterosexual). In Study 2, participants (n = 192) judged speakers’ (n = 31) ...
Gay Voice: stable marker of sexual orientation or flexible communication device?
Daniele, M.; Fasoli, F.; António, R.; Sulpizio, S.; Maass, A.Listeners rely on vocal features when guessing others’ sexual orientation. What is less clear is whether speakers modulate their voice to emphasize or to conceal their sexual orientation. We hypothesized that gay individuals adapt their voices to the social context, either emphasizing or disguising their sexual orientation. In Study 1 (n = 20 speakers, n = 383 Italian listeners and n = 373 British listeners), u...
Voice changes meaning: the role of gay- versus straight-sounding voices in sent...
Fasoli, F.; Maass, A.; Karniol, R.; António, R.; Sulpizio, S.Utterances reveal not only semantic information but also information about the speaker’s social category membership, including sexual orientation. In four studies (N = 345), we investigated how the meaning of what is being said changes as a function of the speaker’s voice. In Studies 1a/1b, gay- and straight-sounding voices uttered the same sentences. Listeners indicated the likelihood that the speaker was refe...
The social costs of sounding gay: voice-based impressions of adoption applicants
Fasoli, F.; Maass, A.In three studies (total N = 239) we examined the unexplored question of whether voice conveying sexual orientation elicits stigma and discrimination in the context of adoption. Studies 1 and 2 were conducted in Italy where same-sex adoption is illegal and controversial. Study 3 was conducted in the United Kingdom where same-sex adoption is legal and generally more accepted. The three studies show that listeners...
Who wants to sound straight? Sexual majority and minority stereotypes, beliefs ...
Fasoli, F.; Hegarty, P.; Maass, A.; António, R.Research on the accuracy of ‘gaydar’ judgments has burgeoned but rarely considered targets' perspectives on cues that signal a person's sexual orientation to others. We examined sexual majority and minority speakers' (N?=?241) beliefs about the extent to which their voices act as a ‘gaydar’ clue to others, and speakers' desire to be so disclosed. Men believed their voices were more revealing of their sexual ori...
The (female) graduate: choice and consequences of women’s clothing
Fasoli, F.; Maass, A.; Volpato, C; Pacilli, M. G.This research investigates how female students choose their graduation outfit andhow clothing affects observers’ judgments. In Study 1, we manipulated the students’graduation outfit so as to look professional or sexy. Female peers, adults, and professorsformed a first impression about the students, their thesis work and guessed theirgraduation scores (thesis points and final mark). All participant groups judged...
Voice and prejudice: the social costs of auditory gaydar
Fasoli, F.; Maass, A.It is a widespread belief that individuals are able to detect other people’s sexual orientation from vocal information alone (auditory gaydar). We argue that auditory gaydar, although often inaccurate, leads to stereotyping, avoidance, and discrimination of gay/lesbian-sounding speakers. Much like “social vision,” these voice-based inferences are driven by two distinct processes—a direct feature-based path and ...
Gay- and lesbian-sounding auditory cues elicit stereotyping and discrimination
Fasoli, F.; Maass, A.; Paladino, M. P.; Sulpizio, S.The growing body of literature on the recognition of sexual orientation from voice (“auditory gaydar”) is silent on the cognitive and social consequences of having a gay-/lesbian- versus heterosexual-sounding voice. We investigated this issue in four studies (overall N = 276), conducted in Italian language, in which heterosexual listeners were exposed to single-sentence voice samples of gay/lesbian and heterose...