The voice of confidence: Paralinguistic cues and audience evaluation

Scherer, Klaus R.; London, Harvey; Wolf, Jared J.

doi:10.1016/0092-6566(73)90030-5

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The voice of confidence: Paralinguistic cues and audience evaluation

ContributorsScherer, Klaus R.

; London, Harvey; Wolf, Jared J.

Published inJournal of Research in Personality, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 31-44

Publication date1973

Abstract

A standard speaker read linguistically confident and doubtful texts in a confident or doubtful voice. A computer-based acoustic analysis of the four tapes showed that paralinguistic confidence was expressed by increased loudness of voice, rapid rate of speech, and infrequent, short pauses. Under some conditions, higher pitch levels and greater pitch and energy fluctuations in the voice were related to paralinguistic confidence. In a 2 × 2 design, observers perceived and used these cues to attribute confidence and related personality traits to the speaker. Both text and voice cues are related to confidence ratings; in addition, the two types of cue are related to differing personality attributes.

Keywords

Audience
Evaluation
Paralinguistic
Voice confidence

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Research group

Affective sciences

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SCHERER, Klaus R., LONDON, Harvey, WOLF, Jared J. The voice of confidence: Paralinguistic cues and audience evaluation. In: Journal of Research in Personality, 1973, vol. 7, n° 1, p. 31–44. doi: 10.1016/0092-6566(73)90030-5

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PID : unige:101849
DOI : 10.1016/0092-6566(73)90030-5

Commercial URLhttp://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0092656673900305

ISSN of the journal0092-6566

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