Dec 22, 2017
How does the way you speak influence others' judgements?
What is it about the way that someone speaks that makes you think
they're lying? In this talk, Martin presents a series of
experiments looking at speech disfluency ("um" or "er") and how it
affects listeners' judgements. In particular, he shows that
judgements are affected *fast*: Listeners may have made their minds
up long before the speaker has even got to the "lying" bit of what
they're saying. He goes on to explore the basis of listeners'
judgements: Are they using a simple rule where "um" -> "lie", or
are they taking circumstances into account? And... are they right?
All to be revealed in 40 mins of cognitive psychology, including
lego journalists.
Martin Corley is Head of Psychology at Edinburgh University. His
research centres on the information that is normally overlooked in
human speech, from the particular ways in which the mouth moves to
make sounds, to the "ums", "ers", and self-corrections that pepper
our everyday conversation. He has supervised over 20 PhD students
and published over 50 academic papers (including one on equine
medicine, for some reason).
Twitter: @martincorley