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Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study
Sulpizio, S.; Günther, F.; Badan, L.; Basclain, B.; Brysbaert, M.; Chan, Y. L.; Ciaccio, L. A.; Dudschig, C.; Duñabeitia, J. A.; Fasoli, F.; Ferrand, L.The use of taboo words represents one of the most common and arguably universal linguistic behaviors, fulfilling a wide range of psychological and social functions. However, in the scientific literature, taboo language is poorly characterized, and how it is realized in different languages and populations remains largely unexplored. Here we provide a database of taboo words, collected from different linguistic c...
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...
Auditory gaydar: perception of sexual orientation based on female voice
Sulpizio, S.; Fasoli, F.; António, R.; Eyssel, F.; Paladino, M. P.; Diehl, C.We investigated auditory gaydar (i.e., the ability to recognize sexual orientation) in female speakers, addressing three related issues: whether auditory gaydar is (1) accurate, (2) language-dependent (i.e., occurs only in some languages, but not in others), and (3) ingroup-specific (i.e., occurs only when listeners judge speakers of their own language, but not when they judge foreign language speakers). In thr...
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...
When characters impact on dubbing: the role of sexual stereotypes on voice acto...
Fasoli, F.; Mazzurega, M.; Sulpizio, S.Dubbing is a procedure through which an original actor’s voice is replaced with that of a voice actor, usually speaking a different language. Dubbing is not only an adaptation to language but also to cultural beliefs. Across two studies, we analyzed how some Italian participants would prefer a television series’ character to sound. In Study 1, participants read a male/female character description that was manip...
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...