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Judging personality and appearance from voice disorders.

G W Blood, B W Mahan, M Hyman

    Journal of Communication Disorders
    |February 1, 1979
    PubMed
    Summary

    Voice disorders negatively impact perceptions of personality and appearance. Correcting voice issues can improve how speakers are judged.

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    Area of Science:

    • Speech-Language Pathology
    • Psychology
    • Acoustic Analysis

    Background:

    • Voice quality significantly influences social perception.
    • Disordered voices may lead to negative attributions.
    • Understanding these effects is crucial for clinical intervention.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the impact of voice disorders on personality and appearance judgments.
    • To compare perceptions of speakers with normal, harsh-breathy, and hypernasal voices.

    Main Methods:

    • 105 college students rated 12 speakers.
    • Speakers had normal, harsh-breathy, or hypernasal voice quality.
    • A semantic differential procedure with 12 bipolar adjectives was used.

    Main Results:

    • Significant differences were found between normal and disordered voices.
    • Voice disorders resulted in more negative personality judgments.
    • Voice disorders led to more negative appearance judgments.

    Conclusions:

    • Voice disorders elicit negative perceptions.
    • These negative judgments underscore the importance of voice correction.
    • Addressing voice disorders can improve social interactions and perceptions.

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