Judgements of a speaker's personality are correlated across differing content and stimulus type.

ABSTRACT: It has previously been shown that first impressions of a speaker's personality, whether accurate or not, can be judged from short utterances of vowels and greetings, as well as from prolonged sentences and readings of complex paragraphs. From these studies, it is established that listeners' judgements are highly consistent with one another, suggesting that different people judge personality traits in a similar fashion, with three key personality traits being related to measures of valence (associated with trustworthiness), dominance, and attractiveness. Yet, particularly in voice perception, limited research has established the reliability of such personality judgements across stimulus types of varying lengths. Here we investigate whether first impressions of trustworthiness, dominance, an

SUBMITTER: Mahrholz G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6171871 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature