Male and female Ss listened to their own recorded voices, some of which had been distorted by filtering out selected frequencies. When women listened to their own voices, they experienced a consistent and reliable disruptive and discrepancy effect, as measured by semantic differential responses, regardless of the degree of distortion. Responses for men were unreliable. The results suggest that, at least for women, hearing one's own recorded voice produces a disruptive effect which is referrable not only to the physical differences between the recorded voice and the voice as one speaks, but to psychological, motivational factors as well.
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