Pitch perfection : how does pitch affect risk behaviour

• Main Authors: Chua, Gabriel Yong Ping, Liaw, Shao Yi, Er, Hui Jun
• Other Authors: He Tai-Sen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138591
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Our daily interactions are predominantly influenced by face-to-face and other verbal forms of communication. Individual perceptions of others are often subconsciously influenced by the speech cues such as vocal pitch. We hypothesize that high pitch increases risk aversion and low pitch decreases ris...