女性更易記住聲音低沉的男性
Men who sound like singer Barry White or actor James Earl Jones can get ahead in the mating game because women remember a deep male voice, scientists have revealed.
據英國《每日郵報》9月13日報道，科學家稱，擁有像歌手巴里 懷特或演員詹姆斯 厄爾 瓊斯一樣嗓音的男性更易在追求異性的競技中佔領優勢地位，因爲女性會對男性的低沉嗓音記憶深刻。
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland have proved for the first time that a low masculine voice is important to the accuracy of women's memory and subsequent choice of mate. Women are very sensitive to the pitch of a voice and will remember a deep voice above higher tones.
英國蘇格蘭阿伯丁大學的科學家們首次證實，男性的低沉嗓音會對女性記憶的準確性及對隨後女性選擇配偶產生重要影響。女性對音高非常敏感，她們對低音比對高音的印象更加深刻。
The pitch of a voice is also very important to women looking for a long-term partner. When they come to evaluate potential partners, they use it to assess genetic quality as well as behavioral traits such as antisocial behavior and lack of emotional warmth.
音高在女性尋找長期伴侶時也非常重要。在考慮潛在伴侶時，女性會通過（男性的）音高來評估他們的基因質量和行爲特徵，例如確定男性是否會做出與社會格格不入的行爲、是否缺乏溫情。
In the first experiment, 45 women were initially shown an image of a single object while listening to the name of the object spoken either by a high or low pitch male or female manipulated voice.
在第一個試驗中，研究人員首先將一件物品的圖像展示給45名女性，並讓她們聽由男女高低音讀出物品名稱時的聲音。
They were then shown two similar but not identical versions of the object and asked to identify the one they had seen earlier. The women were also asked which voice they preferred.
然後，研究人員給她們出示兩件相似但不完全相同的物品，並詢問她們最先看到的是哪一件物品。研究人員還對女性更青睞哪種聲音進行了調查。
In the second experiment, the researchers used real male and female voices to test how 46 new women rated the voices and how they scored on object memory.
在第二個實驗中，研究人員分別利用男性和女性的真實聲音對另外46名女性進行了實驗，讓她們對各種聲音和對物品的印象程度進行評估。
In both cases, the authors found that women had a strong preference for the low pitch male voice and remembered objects more accurately when they have been introduced by the deep male voice.
在兩個試驗中，研究人員都發現，男性的低沉嗓音更受女性青睞。倘若一件物品是由一個男低音介紹的，那麼女性對這件物品的記憶就更準確。
Lead researcher Dr David Smith concludes: "Our findings demonstrate that women's memory is enhanced by lower pitch male voices, compared with the less attractive raised pitch male voices."
負責該研究的大衛 史密斯總結說：“我們的發現證明，與男高音相比，男低音更能讓女性記憶深刻。”
The research is published in Springer's journal, Memory and Cognition.
該研究發表在《施普林格記憶與認知》期刊上。
