TY - JOUR
AU - Taylor, Harold C.
AB - 244 SHORT ARTICLES AND NOTES 3. POWERS, H. E. An application of the Marston introversion-extroversion scale. 1. Educ. Prychol., 1928, 19, 168-174. Columbia University New York City SOCIAL AGREEMENT ON PERSONALITY TRAITS AS JUDGED FROM SPEECH‘ HAROLD C. TAYLOR A. THE PROBLEM It should be obvious that the speech of another person-along with his dress, mannerisms, physical build, and physiognomy-greatly influences our judgments concerning his personality. The mere “hello,” “thank you,” and “good-bye” of a telephone operator often give us quite complex notions of her personality. We speak of a radio announcer as cultured, egotistical, nervous, or whatnot, entirely apart from the content of his utterances. Psychologically trained persons are apt to take little stock in the validity of such judgments, but they are real, nevertheless. And just as studies of judgments from photographs have revealed the different degrees of social agreement in such judgments on various traits, as well as the general inaccuracy of all such judgments, a similar study might be expected to show the situation with regard to speech. (1) study of voices as heard on the radio utilized a great many Pear’s listeners, but few speakers, and was confined to judgments of a few traits, 
TI - Social Agreement on Personality Traits as Judged from Speech
JF - The Journal of Social Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00224545.1934.9919452
DA - 1934-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/social-agreement-on-personality-traits-as-judged-from-speech-b5v02wS4A4
SP - 244
EP - 248
VL - 5
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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