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Confident Tone Overcomes Accent Distrust

Oct 11, 2018 · 3 min
0:00-3:40

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English as-a-first-language Canadian study subjects were less trusting of statements in English spoken with a foreign accent, unless the speaker sounded confident about their assertion.


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