Vocal pitch as an acoustic marker of social support efficacy in women friendships.

IF 3.5 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI:10.1037/xge0001841

Razia S Sahi,Siyan G Nussbaum,João F Guassi Moreira,Elizabeth M Gaines,Emilia Ninova,Daniel Lee,Naomi I Eisenberger,Jennifer A Silvers

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Abstract

Vocal communication (e.g., pitch) can shape inferences about speakers and the content of their messages. Yet, it is unknown how such communication impacts the effectiveness of social support. We examined the role of support givers' vocal pitch in three dyadic data sets (N₁ = 39; N₂ = 39; N₃ = 59; friend pairs) where participants recorded scripted reappraisals (i.e., reinterpretations) of aversive stimuli to support a friend with regulating emotion. Using Bayesian statistics, we found cumulative evidence that when support givers used higher pitch in delivering these reappraisals, targets of support experienced less negative affect. Targets of support also reported greater relationship satisfaction with support givers who used higher pitch during reappraisal. These data consisted primarily of women friend pairs, with preliminary results indicating that these associations may not hold in men friendships. These results highlight acoustic features of verbal communication as a promising mechanism for strengthening social ties and emotional well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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音高作为女性友谊中社会支持效能的声学标记。

声音交流（如音调）可以形成对说话者及其信息内容的推断。然而，这种交流如何影响社会支持的有效性尚不清楚。我们在三个二元数据集（N₁= 39;N₂= 39;N₃= 59；朋友对）中检查了支持提供者的音高的作用，参与者记录了厌恶刺激的脚本重新评估（即重新解释），以支持朋友调节情绪。使用贝叶斯统计，我们发现累积证据表明，当支持者在提供这些重新评估时使用更高的音调时，支持目标受到的负面影响较少。支持对象在重新评估过程中使用更高音调的支持给予者也报告了更高的关系满意度。这些数据主要是由女性朋友组成的，初步结果表明，这些联系可能不适用于男性友谊。这些结果强调了语言交流的声学特征是加强社会联系和情感健康的一种有希望的机制。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

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6.20

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4.90%

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300

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, psychopathology, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary, but shorter articles that bridge subdisciplines will also be considered.