Pitch right : the effect of vocal pitch on risk aversion

• Main Authors: Chua, Gabriel Yong Ping, Liaw, Shao Yi, Er, Hui Jun, He, Tai-Sen
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Economic development; Vocal Pitch; Risk Aversion
• Online Access: https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-20-00753.html; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146256
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

During interpersonal interactions, individual perceptions and judgment are unavoidably influenced by speech cues,such as vocal pitch. This paper experimentally examines the effect of vocal pitch on risk attitudes. In a lottery-choicetask, subjects made a series of binary choices between a 50–50 lott...