Is your Lover a Cheater? Listen to their Voice.

Betty Boop has a squeaky voice.  Does that make her a cheater?

The level of a lover's voice; lower for men and higher for women, can be a strong indicator for the propensity of cheating.  At least that is what people seem to believe.

The EurekAlert! Press Release "Can you predict your mate will cheat by their voice," describes a test with male and female particapants.  They were asked to grade several male and female voices as possible cheaters or not.  Researchers found that participants held a strong belief that females with high pitched voices were likely to stray from a relationship while men with lower voices were likely to cheat.

The reasoning for these assumptions were not entirely clear.  Biological factors such as hormones could play a role.  For example a higher voice is usually a sign of high levels of estrogen in women and lower voices are a sign of higher testosterone.  It can also be likely that these assumptions are socially-based as well.  Years and years of television shows that portray really high pitched women as sex-crazed bimbos could color anyone's judgement about sex. 

The same could be said about a deep voice.  A deep gruff male is always portrayed as a manly man. 

So the question should be what came first the chicken or the egg?

It would also be interesting to repeat these experiments in different cultures.  Will the results differ based on different cultural influences?