title: Males Perform Better in Identifying Voices During Menstruation Than Females: A Pilot Study.
abstract: The objective of the present study is to investigate gender differences in the ability to identify females' voice during menstruation. In Study 1, 55 male participants (M age = 19.6 years, SD = 1.0) were asked to listen to vocal samples from women during both ovulation and menstruation and to identify which recordings featured menstruating women. The results showed that the accuracy of men's responses (M = 56.73%, SD = 0.21) was significantly higher than 50%. In Study 2, 118 female students (M age = 19.4 years, SD = 1.6) completed the same task. The results indicated that the accuracy of women's performance was nearly 50%. These preliminary findings suggest that men are better able to identify women's voices during menstruation than women. Future work could consider several significant variables for the purpose of validating the results.
authors: Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, China.
authors: Xue
authors: X
authors: Wang
authors: Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, China.
authors: Xin
authors: X
authors: Xu
authors: Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, China; Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, China liuyangyang661@sina.com.
authors: Yangyang
authors: Y
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008598:Menstruation; D012737:Sex Factors; D014831:Voice; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Menstruation; gender difference; vocal identification