The Humanizing Voice: Speech Reveals, and Text Conceals, a More Thoughtful Mind in the Midst of Disagreement
Schroeder, Kardas & Epley (2017) · Psychological Science, 28(12)
Relied on in 3 places across the academy · 3 stated limits
What it found
When people met an opinion they disagreed with, hearing it spoken rather than reading the identical words led them to judge the holder as more thoughtful, more rational and more human.
Hearing a view rather than reading it made the person holding it seem more thoughtful and more human.
Hearing an opposing opinion spoken rather than reading the identical words led people to judge the holder as more thoughtful and more human, and to dehumanise them less.
What it does not show
Political and social disagreement between strangers, delivered as prepared arguments. It is not a study of a text argument with somebody you are seeing.
And where we carry it further
Tested on political and social disagreement between strangers, not on a text argument with somebody you are seeing.
Disagreement between strangers again. Applying it to a misread text is our extension.
Political and social disagreement between strangers. Applying it to a text argument with somebody you are seeing is our extension.
Where we rely on it
3 places in the academy. If this paper turned out to be wrong, this is the list that would have to change.
In the curriculum · 2
In the films · 1
Cited alongside it
Papers that sit under the same topics and films. Not a claim that they agree with each other — only that the same exercises lean on both.
If You Need Help, Just Ask: Underestimating Compliance With Direct Requests for Help
Flynn & Lake (2008)Egocentrism Over E-Mail: Can We Communicate as Well as We Think?
Kruger, Epley, Parker & Ng (2005)Beautiful Mess Effect: Self–Other Differences in Evaluation of Showing Vulnerability
Bruk, Scholl & Bless (2018)It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Question-Asking Increases Liking
Huang, Yeomans, Brooks, Minson & Gino (2017)Duration Neglect in Retrospective Evaluations of Affective Episodes; When More Pain Is Preferred to Less
Fredrickson & Kahneman (1993); Kahneman, Fredrickson, Schreiber & Redelmeier (1993)Research
A real study. We tell you what it found, how many people were in it, and what it can't prove.
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