Strategic Pause Length in Influential Speech
Silence between sentences shapes how listeners learn and judge speakers.
Renata Osei-Mensah
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4 stories in Voice and Prosody.
Silence between sentences shapes how listeners learn and judge speakers.
Listeners penalize upspeak more harshly when women use it.
Lower voices trigger snap leadership judgments, whether speakers intend it or not.
Listeners punish filler words far more harshly than the science justifies.