Gender Race Intermodal Perception: Investigating the Effects of Vocal Pitch on Face-Voice Matching in Children
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2024
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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Grouping other people into social categories based on one’s perceptions involves many different sensory cues, including both the visual and auditory modalities. This study examines how vocal cues specifically influence gender and racial categorization in children. Participants (N=62) aged 3-10 were presented with audio recordings from Black, White, and Asian males and females and asked to choose who they believed the speaker to be out of a set of six pictures of the same target gender and race groups. Children were more likely than chance to make correct gender matches and gender-race matches. Within the gender matches, children made more matches for male speakers than female speakers, and made the fewest gender matches for Black speakers. Within the race matches, children made more race matches for White speakers compared to Asian and Black speakers. This supports previous research demonstrating biases for White people and men, and against Black women.