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Foreign Accents Make Speakers Seem Less Truthful to Listeners
July 19, 2010
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A foreign accent undermines a person's credibility in ways that the speaker and the listener don't consciously realize, new research at the University of Chicago shows. Because an accent makes a person harder to understand, listeners are less likely to find what the person says as truthful, researchers found. The problem of credibility increases with the severity of the accent.Full StorySource
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