Why does it seem that people dislike recordings of their voice more than photos of themselves?
Personally, I'm not a fan of either, so it's always been a little interesting to me to run into people that are more averse to hearing a recording of their voice.
(Also is there a dedicated term for audio-only voice recordings? 🤨)
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People see themselves in the mirror pretty often, so they have a general idea of how they appear to other people. But they don't hear their own voice regularly unless they record themselves and listen to it, so it's more of a surprise when they do hear their own voice.
I think you have this flipped, though. It's more like we hear ourselves all the time, but we don't sound at all to ourselves the way we actually sound. We don't have a sort of internal picture of ourselves to create dissonance with our reflection or photographs in the same way we do with our voices. It's that dissonance that makes us distrust or dislike hearing ourselves as we actually sound because that isn't the voice we identify with internally.
I think this is changing and would change more in thw future. I'm not a fan of voice messages, but my wife and her sisters never "chat" they just send audio messages on whatsapp all the time and, at least my wife, listen to the messages she send multiple times. I don't think she's the only one who does that.