Listeners get an idea of the personality of the speaker through his voice

(Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona) A paper published by Cristina Baus and Albert Costa, UPF researchers at the Center for Cognition and Brain (CBC), in collaboration with researchers from the Université Aix-Marseille and the University of Glasgow, has shown that listeners across languages form very rapid personality impressions from the voice and this is not modulated by the language of the listener, native or foreign.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://bit.ly/2CVEYMj