You Think Your Partner is Cheating On You ? The Clue is in His Voice

Trouble having determining whether your partner is cheating on you or not ? Before you decide to spent your money on hiring a private detective or shadowing him/her by yourself, here is a handy tool. A new study has emerged that can predict if someone has been unfaithful-just from the sound of their voice.
A person’s sex, race, social status, personality traits, even their height and weight, and whether their body or face is symmetrical, can all be deduced by voice alone. “Voices relay important information pertaining to mating success and sexual behavior,” the study says.

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The study published in Evolutionary Psychology titled “Your Cheating Voice Will Tell On You : Detection of Past Infidelity From Voice” explored the possibility that someone’s voice could give away serious clues if they were cheating on their partner. What the researchers did was to bring together a group of undergraduate students and gave them a number of audio clips in which a speaker was counting from 1 to 10.

Half of the recordings were from man and other other half from women. Half of both women and men had histories of cheating. The undergraduate students analysed the audio and was asked to rate how likely the person was to cheat his/her partner on a scale from 1 to 10. When the study was all done, it was found that the students were able to determine which speakers had a history of Infidelity. The analysers couldn’t exactly tell what feature of the voice influenced their decision, but there was something.

“Other vocal cues such as clarity of articulation may have also contributed to perceptions of infidelity. For example, masculine males tend to display less clarity in their speech and show phonetic patterns indicative of masculinity, which in turn could be associated with infidelity threat….Extroverts show greater variation in fundamental frequency, greater voice quality, and fewer silent pauses … and high extroversion strongly predicts infidelity” said a Researcher

So you want to find out if your partner is cheating, start listening a little harder. It’s right there in his/her voice.