Voice Changes When You’re Charmed, Work Motivation Types, and Gin and Tonic Curing Malaria
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Learn how your voice changes when you talk to someone attractive; how the cinchona cure for malaria turned into a popular cocktail; and how to figure out whether your work is a job, a career, or a calling.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Your Voice Changes When You Talk to Someone Attractive — https://curiosity.im/2EekKk6
- Here's How a Malaria Cure Turned Into Your Gin and Tonic — https://curiosity.im/2StDCPb
- Is Your Work a Job, Career, or Calling? — https://curiosity.im/2Eg6XJX
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.6 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.6 | Today you learn how your voice changes when you talk to someone attractive, |
| 0:11.0 | how a cure for malaria turned into a popular cocktail, and how to figure |
| 0:15.0 | out whether your work is a job, a career, or a calling. |
| 0:18.0 | What's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily. |
| 0:21.0 | Did you know that your voice changes when you talk to |
| 0:24.0 | someone you find attractive? If you're talking with a slightly lower than |
| 0:27.8 | normal speaking pitch, it may mean you think the person you're talking to is a |
| 0:32.2 | babe. |
| 0:33.0 | Honestly, my favorite part about this story is knowing what to listen for and other people. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah, but the problem is that when you meet someone for the first time, you don't know what their |
| 0:39.6 | regular speaking voice is. |
| 0:41.0 | Ah, very true. |
| 0:42.4 | So if they always speak to you in a low voice and then you hear them speak to someone else, |
| 0:47.1 | that's one you know. |
| 0:48.1 | Yes. |
| 0:49.1 | Anyway, this idea comes from a couple different studies. |
| 0:53.0 | A 2010 study published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior |
| 0:56.0 | found that people subconsciously tweak the pitch of their voice |
| 1:00.0 | when they're chatting with someone they think is good looking. |
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