If you want to know whether a man is interested in you, ignore what he’s saying – and focus on how he’s saying it.

如果你想知道一个男人是否对你有意思，请忽略他对你说了什么——只注意他是怎么对你说话的。

Men instinctively¹ adopt a pitch-variable, or sing-song tone – in a similar way that people speak to a baby – when talking to a woman they find attractive, a new study has found.

最新研究表明，当男人看到自己觉得有魅力的女性时，他会不自觉的使用一种时高时低，像唱歌一般的声调——有些类似人们和婴儿说话时使用的音调。

The man will lower his voice to its lowest minimum pitch before picking it up again, the psychologists at the University of Stirling found.

斯特灵大学的心理学家发现，男性会将自己的声调压到最低的程度，然后再把声调上扬起来。

And these unconscious vocal² adjustments tend to have the desired effect: listeners responded more favourably³ to recordings⁴ of voices with these acoustics⁵.

这种无意识的音调转化往往能达到预期的效果：听众对具有这种音调变化的声音更有好感。

The psychologists think that a man lowers his voice to sound manly⁶, and then plays around with the pitch in order to put the woman at ease.

心理学家认为，男人放低声音是为了听起来更阳刚，然后他们又转而将音调上扬，以此让女性更加放松。

Juan David Leongomez, who led the study, said: ‘For men, it is important to sound masculine, which is manifested in a deeper voice pitch.

这项研究的研究带头人，胡安·大卫·里昂戈麦斯说：“对男性来说，说话声调有男子气概是很重要的，他们会用更低沉的音调来表现这种男子气概。”