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In past studies, researchers have recorded homosexual and heterosexual men speaking long passages from texts of plays, and test subjects were pretty accurate in picking out the gay voices among them. But Eric Tracy, a psychologist at Ohio State University, wanted to see just how little information people needed before they made up their mind about if a speaker was gay. The gay speakers received a score of 4. Once Tracy found that his test subjects tended to perceive gay speech differently based on short words, he decided to look closer, to zero in on which part of the word was the trigger for the decision.

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