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ACOUSTIC DETERMINANTS OF PERCEPTIONS OF PERSONALITY FROM SPEECH

ACOUSTIC DETERMINANTS OF PERCEPTIONS OF PERSONALITY FROM SPEECH BRUCE L. BROWN, WILLIAM J. STRONG, AND ALVIN C. RENCHER The studies reviewed in this paper are somewhat diverse. The one unifying feature in all of them is their purpose of identifying the ways in which non-content aspects of speech elicit personality impressions. Whether the speech variables are dialect (or sociolect) categories or personality-expressive characteristics, whether they are linguistically categorized or acoustically manipulated variables, the central interest is in identifying the "implicit personality theory" of judges in their reactions to various types of speech. THE QUANTIFIABILITY OF VOCAL VARIABLES Studies of "implicit personality theory" (Bruner and Tagiuri, 1954) and interpersonal perception have a long history in social psychology, but investigators have typically avoided using actual people as stimuli, probably because of the difficulties of quantifying the appearance and behavior of stimulus persons. It is easy enough to quantify the personality impression responses of judges by using adjective rating scales, but there are so many aspects to the appearance and observable behavior of the stimulus person that it becomes difficult to specify the cues by which the judge makes his judgments. Many investigators have avoided the problem by reading a list of adjectives to judges, pretending that the traits http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-3949
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10.1515/ling.1975.13.166.11
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BRUCE L. BROWN, WILLIAM J. STRONG, AND ALVIN C. RENCHER The studies reviewed in this paper are somewhat diverse. The one unifying feature in all of them is their purpose of identifying the ways in which non-content aspects of speech elicit personality impressions. Whether the speech variables are dialect (or sociolect) categories or personality-expressive characteristics, whether they are linguistically categorized or acoustically manipulated variables, the central interest is in identifying the "implicit personality theory" of judges in their reactions to various types of speech. THE QUANTIFIABILITY OF VOCAL VARIABLES Studies of "implicit personality theory" (Bruner and Tagiuri, 1954) and interpersonal perception have a long history in social psychology, but investigators have typically avoided using actual people as stimuli, probably because of the difficulties of quantifying the appearance and behavior of stimulus persons. It is easy enough to quantify the personality impression responses of judges by using adjective rating scales, but there are so many aspects to the appearance and observable behavior of the stimulus person that it becomes difficult to specify the cues by which the judge makes his judgments. Many investigators have avoided the problem by reading a list of adjectives to judges, pretending that the traits

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Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1975

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