Why We Are Obsessed With Butts & The Best and Worst Way to Apologize - SYSK Choice
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Why should you lower the pitch of your voice?
Also, should you calculate the tip on a restaurant bill before or after the tax? And how to apologize because a good apology is golden.
The steps for making a good apology are so easy and yet actually doing them is so hard because our brains are not wired for this. Apologizing is a really brave act.
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Another study found that men have a tendency to lower their voices in order to try to dominate in certain settings. In short, we signal our dominance with lower-pitched voices. But interestingly, stress and adrenaline makes your voice go higher. In fact, it turns out that people speak in higher-pitched voices when they talk to people of higher status or when they're intimidated. Humans are incredibly good at hearing the stress in other people's voices. We pick up on it immediately. And one way to conceal that stress is to deliberately lower your pitch. And that is something you should know. There is a body part that we don't talk about too much, but we certainly think about it often enough, even obsess about it at times. It is the human butt.
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