Confirmed: Women prefer women politicians with deep voices

Volunteers were asked to listen to pairs of candidates with differently pitched voices speaking the phrase: “I urge you to vote for me this November”.

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Both men and women preferred female candidates with lower, more masculine voices, the study published in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE found.

While women did not discriminate between the male voices they heard, men favoured those that were deeper.

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