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Men Act Like Dogs to Determine Dominance

livescience.com — "A new study finds that the lower the pitch of a man's voice, the more physically dominant other men think he is. And men lower their voice pitch when addressing a man they believe to be less dominant than themselves, but raise it when speaking to someone they think is more dominant."

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  • gronne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+150So is Barry White the top dog then?
    • sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -42/+5Too funny, I was about to type the exact same thing.
    • WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34You didn't need this article to know that, man.
    • lava, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47yet bill gates is the richest man in the world.
    • danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18He is the great-dane of the man kingdom.
    • technique, on 10/12/2007, -19/+8@lava

      $$$ != dominance
    • rodeo40, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51Explain Mike Tyson...
    • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9technique, Where the hell do you live? $$$ MOST CERTAINLY = Dominance.
    • schleppo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23Screw Barry White. James Earl Jones is leader of the pack!
    • bennomatic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@schlep-

      Yeah, I don't think darth vader bows to anyone...
    • lj535i, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Mike Tyson: I think his dominance had something to do with his ability to punch, and more recently bite.
    • mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3didnt read the article. it's pretty obvious. observe your own behavior, everyone does it.
    • atsidor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Freddie Mercury is king. All this deep voice nonsense can bite the dust.
    • brachiator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yes, James Earl Jones, but, more importantly Paul Robeson (who Jones once portrayed in a one-man show).
    • ArcticCelt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"yet bill gates is the richest man in the world."

      "$$$ != dominance"

      No contradiction here. Bill Gates fortune, power and standing makes him socially dominant not physically. Exactly what this article was saying.

      "Puts and his team think lower vocal pitch signals physical dominance more than it does social dominance, which in modern humans is typically achieved through skillful leadership and persuasion, not strength."
    • FlyingLlama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Finally explains how Arnold became governor of California!
    • computerdude33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I, for one, welcome our new deep voiced canine overlords.
  • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -58/+6i can't wait to see the penis jokes on this thread
    • diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -9/+122i'll bet you just can't wait to see a penis.
    • blanski, on 10/12/2007, -3/+53diecastbeatdown...
      I'm in the library on the quiet floor and it took all of my strength not to fall on the floor and die laughing.
    • arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -27/+2Eww... Library @ Digg? People will find out about our secret. =(
  • technique, on 10/12/2007, -10/+154Alt. title:

    "Men Act Like Dogs; Women Really Are Bitches"
  • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -49/+9I thought "men are pigs™"...?

    DAMMIT! Now I'm confused!
    • systemghost, on 10/12/2007, -11/+47That's why you're a woman.
    • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5And, obviously, no one got my joke. *smacks forehead*

      I think I'll just make jokes about "tubes". Those are popular around here. *sheesh*
    • dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i thought i was a male chauvinist pig, but this article has really cleared that up.
  • CaptainBukko, on 10/12/2007, -29/+6Here you go ImTheDarkcyde:
    New study finds the faster sports car a man drives, the smaller his penis.
  • jotux, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19In other news, headline states obvious.
  • ase111, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Only partly true...

    Oh, N'sync must feel pretty damn inferior.
  • Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Of course men act like dogs - that's what cockblocking's all about.
    • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21"that's what cockblocking's all about."

      I thought it was all the drunken leg-humping at college frat parties....?!?
    • dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7"Of course men act like dogs - that's what cockblocking's all about."

      Cockblocking is not a term specific to dominant men in particular, as lesser dominant men and even women can both cockblock. Examples follow:

      Lesser-dominant man cockblocking you while you're spittin' game on a chick:
      "Dude, this party blows. Let's go play Dance-Dance."

      Chick cockblocking you while you're spittin' game on a chick.
      "Uhm, we have to go. She has to drive me home."

      And there you have it.
    • fauxpaw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Cockblocking yourself:
      Using phrases like "spittin' game on a chick" around a woman.
    • dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"Cockblocking yourself:
      Using phrases like "spittin' game on a chick" around a woman."

      OOO, SNAP! You totally put my satire in its place!
    • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"OOO, SNAP! You totally put my satire in its place!"

      Ummm..no. Your "satire" (which I'll bet WASN'T satire) went over as well as my "men are pigs" joke. (See above.)
    • dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Ummm..no. Your "satire" (which I'll bet WASN'T satire) went over as well as my "men are pigs" joke. (See above.)"

      Interesting you make a comparison between your -35 diggs, and my +2 diggs. Actually, it's not very interesting. It's stretching quite a bit.
  • CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42stephen hawking cried when he read this thread =(
    • arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34Too bad he's already created a portal to the past, and is reproducing at amazing rates, to create a world of mini-Hawking.
    • ScottAG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49No, he just installed the deep voice mod to his chair-'puter when he read this thread.
    • mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Hawking then attached the deep voice mod to a sub woofer. He now owns us all.
    • idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Stephen Hawking says:
      *RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE*
    • CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1hawking speaks... and the earth trembles...
      mmm megalomanialicious...
  • Muncher, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41So that's why women have higher voices then?
  • blanski, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22I guess this is why my girlfriend tells me "I speak more like a man" when I talk to my mother's boyfriend...
    • Talphin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9So do you use a higher pitch when talking to her? :D
    • JohnCrichton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6So we now know who's the man in the relationship, hehehe...
  • crad14, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29you know what they say about a man with a long vocal tract....
  • blablaman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Well Rita Cosby (Throaty McHusky) must be more dominant than most men I know then.
  • LLXerxes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41Instead of using a title like 'Men use Vocal depth to establish power' they used a title that says 'Men act like dogs'. Big thanks to the scientific community.
    asses
  • crystalskull, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25*octave lower than normal* Great find. Digg.
    • Twango, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4So, eh ... how ABOUT those Detroit Pistons?
  • Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Who are you calling a bitch?!
  • ganzhimself, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45Hmm, when I act like a dog to assert my dominance over another male I just pee on him.
  • KYDS3K, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Of course, the opposite applies to evil geniuses. Skeletor has a pretty high-pitched voice, as does Cobra Commander. "DESTRO! WHERE'S MY COFFEE?!?!?!" Of course, Destro DID get the Baroness . . .
  • dgaspard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21No wonder every thinks Darth Vader is the man
  • Anthet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9"I find your lack of faith disturbing"
  • jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3I raise or lower my voice for no one... except for cute females maybe... and if someone doesn't understand what I'm saying. But otherwise, I don't care... go let the little boys play their games. ;)
    • danielandrews, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Right, because it's all conscious.
    • jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2for some people, it is... probably for most
    • teethman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3""Right, because it's all conscious.""

      It is now!! MWahahahahaha.

      I dont know why I laughed.
    • jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lol, thumbs up
  • T-Maaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Well... use of a lower vocal octave is _much_ better than the old habit of peeing on things to claim ownership.
  • jlenes, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4This article completely ignores the social significance of a man"lowering" his voice and instead relies on untestable evolutionary psychological theories.
  • johnsto, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3So ytmnd.com is based on scientific fact? THAT'S AMAZING!
  • primary0, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3"i'll be back" anyone?
  • randomc0de, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1No one thinks that maybe dogs are imitating humans? After all, they are higher up on the evolutionary ladder.
    • rritterson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I, too, wonder why no one else wonders if wolves are mimicing humans.
  • KYDS3K, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5YOU'RE THE MAN NOW, DOG!!!
  • mightysquid, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I didn't need this to tell me men are dogs.
  • bethanyb, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4I'm glad I'm a chick.
    • mightysquid, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Me too. :)
    • omgwut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16WTF

      GB2 /KITCHEN/
    • mightysquid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Have you tasted my cooking? You wouldn't want that. I can order ya a pizza if ya want?
    • elamr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I'm glad you're a chick, too. You're hot, Bethany.
    • Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Your thread is worthless without pics, clearly.
    • walkerj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There are tiny avatar pics.
  • grayBot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5 @jlenes WTF?

    did you read the article ?
    They TESTED this theory by measuring the pitch of over 100 men and compared that to their own percieved dominance of the same recording.

    I.e they found that if I have a lower voice than you, you will percieve me to be dominant and vice versa......
    Please show me a more "social significant" test of any "social significant" theory ?

    I think you to be an ignorant troll, please shut up, you are making us dumber.
  • mightysquid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3So by the look of these comments and the burying of comments I'd guess most diggers are guys.

    Who'd of thunk it?
    • vicaya, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Yes, most diggers here are male except gold diggers.
  • automagically, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I noticed this in the Army a lot, especially with the drill sergeants. "HEY YOUUU"... "yeyyeyeyesss.. ddrill sa sa sa sergeantt..?"

    I think it's mostly altering your voice in hopes the other person will be nicer to you. A calming effect, if you will. Try to downplay things so that you have a better chance.
  • ccec, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4@rodeo40

    After someone explains Tyson, help explain me. I'm the exactly opposite of Tyson physically, I'm 5' 7, and have a voice comparable to a much younger version of Barry White... what gives?
  • nerdpunk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Studies have shown that women favor men with low, masculine voices during periods in their menstrual cycle when they're likely to get pregnant, and also that they prefer men with lower voices for short-term sexual flings."
    Oh it is really good thing to know that! I should start practicing right away.
  • soupus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2You mean dogs act like men.
  • elamr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Threaded Comments are completely screwed up.
  • notfred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Duh. Laurie Anderson toured with her Voice of Authority (a vocorder) years ago.
  • Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So that's why Michael Jackson can't get laid with those of his own age...
    • elephantdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That might have more to do with looking like a mutilated corpse.
  • stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Wow, this explains a lot. I am taller than most people, and a deep baritone. I am a congenial person, yet, on a number of occasions, men have told me they find me intimidating, though they couldn't say why. Never women, women invariably feel at ease around me. They like my voice, and often praise it, but never men, not even musicians and homosexuals. In fact, men sometimes complain my normal conversational tone is too loud or annoying, even while others in the group agree it's not. I was fired by a CEO once, he found my voice "loud, boring and monotonous." The HR manager was perplexed, since, not only was it not a good reason to fire someone, her opinion of my voice was the exact opposite.
    • casper_3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2wow ...
    • Twango, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Ben STEIN? What are you DOING here?
    • mancat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Sure you didn't get fired for rambling too often?
    • time2go, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The fact that you have been "fired" tells a lot about you...the fact that your tripping about yourself says even more. Excuse yourself.
  • yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2bowwow. bowwow.
  • 12340987, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Newsflash: Men act like morons to get women.
  • requiem18th, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2LMAO! This is sooooo politically inapropiate yet the funniest digg I have ever read, the commentaries are gold. Didn't care to read the article, this tread made my day.
    • dougmwpsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1woah, dito totally...i have been entertained!
  • Mworthin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Luke...I am your father."
  • jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I hate the social sciences. What they call social sciences, most people call old wives tales. There's a reason they call them the soft sciences. If a physicist or a biochemist ever trotted out a paper so utterly laden with junk-science, they couldn't get a job at Devil's Armpit Junior college. If a sociologist or a psycologist does it, they give them a PHD.

    They could shave a dog's ass, teach it to walk backwards and call it research and still get a grant.

    The boards at the colleges and universities that fund this garbage need to explain themselves. What they call "science" is what most people call make work projects for losers with PHDs.
  • time2go, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No other place is more Dog-Eat-Dog than the free-weight area at the gym. Sometimes you can even see the stacking order of dominance.
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