That data also indicates men may have employed vocal fry more than women in the recent past. To fill in some of these research gaps, researchers in Australia recently conducted some much-needed, ...

A study published in science journal PLOS One in May suggested that a speech pattern called vocal fry undermines the success of people, especially young women, in the labor market. Vocal fry involves ...

A new set of data suggests that vocal fry — or vocal creakiness — could negatively impact female job applicants. The study, published by the online journal PLOS, played samples of male and female ...

"Vocal fry," when someone's voice drops into a throaty, creaky taper, has been under possibly sexist attack in recent years. But, as new research shows, vocal fry is more expressive than just a ...

Whether or not you’re familiar with vocal fry, you’ve heard someone using it. Kim Kardashian’s use of vocal fry is notorious, as is Zooey Deschanel’s. (Searching for a good vocal fry example? YouTube ...

Vocal fry, or glottal fry, is the lowest voice register—below falsetto, head, and chest voices—and is characterized by a low-frequency rattling or frying sound. Although it feels like vocal fry reared ...

Vocal fry is the celebrity communication method of choice these days. Whether you're into it or anti it, you can't deny these seven moments in vocal fry changed the world Vocal fry is taking over the ...

A very tense mannequin modeling Spanx. Photo by Skip Bolen/Getty Images for Spanx In the Huffington Post recently, theater enthusiast and educator Jen Olenizcak—under the headline "Are Spanx Causing ...

What’s really destructive and undermining to women is not their way of speaking but the constant criticism to which their speech is subjected. Telling women their speech-habits are bad and wrong is ...

Vocal fry, a speech pattern that is characterized by a throaty, low register, has recently been showing up in speaking styles. That creaky sound has also been popping up in pop music from artists like ...

The adage "it's not what you say--it's how you say it" might well apply to presidential politicians, too, suggests a recent study by a UCLA vocal scientist. Dr. Rosario Signorello analyzed the voice ...