Flirtation not just involves preening or coy eye contact, voice too plays a major role in seduction, suggests a new study.

We found that both sexes used a lower-pitch voice and showed a higher level of physiological arousal when speaking to a more attractive opposite-sex target," she said.
The study examined 48 Albright students using Skype to leave scripted voice-messages while viewing a picture of a fictitious person "receiving" the message. The men and women the participants looked at varied in attractiveness.
Hughes - who expected that women would raise their voices to sound more feminine and attractive - was surprised.
"There appears to be a common stereotype in our culture that deems a sexy female voice as one that sounds husky, breathy, and lower-pitched," she said.
"This suggests that the motivation to display a sexy/seductive female voice may conflict with the motivation to sound more feminine," she added.
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"When a woman naturally lowers her voice, it may be perceived as her attempt to sound more seductive or attractive, and therefore serves as a signal of her romantic interest," she said.
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