How Charisma Is Perceived from Speech: A Multidimensional Approach

Signorello, Rosario; D’Errico, Francesca; Poggi, Isabella; Demolin, Didier

doi:10.1109/socialcom-passat.2012.68

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“…One consistent finding in previous studies is that more charismatic speech is characterized by higher F0 values [13][14][15][16][17]. In this paper, we investigate this F0 raising more closely by looking at prosodic details of pitch accents.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…Phonetic researchers identified, with a focus on political speakers, a number of acoustic-prosodic features that correlate (in culture-specific ways) with speaker charisma, such as the level, range, and variability of F0 and intensity, speaking rate, and the utterance-to-pause duration ratio. Previous phonetic studies also broke down charisma into simpler adjectives with which the relevant acoustic-prosodic features are strongly correlated [13,14,15,16,17,18,19].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Shapes and timing in charismatic speech - Evidence from sounds and melodies

Niebuhr¹,

Thumm²,

Michalsky³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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Our paper presents a phonetic analysis at the intersection of segments and prosodies. We look in detail at the previous finding that high pitch and a clear pronunciation contribute to a speaker's perceived charisma. To that end, we compare two popular CEOs, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, who are known (from informal observations and formal perception experiments alike) to be more or less charismatic speakers, respectively. The results of our between-speaker comparison suggest that high pitch not only involves the F0 level but also the timing and shaping of pitch accents, and that a clear pronunciation not only refers to a large vowel space but also to the timing and shaping of consonant patterns in terms of fewer place assimilations and clearly separated voiced and voiceless stops. Perspectives for future research and implications for the training and evaluation of charismatic speech are discussed.

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Section: Questions and Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 54%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shapes and timing in charismatic speech - Evidence from sounds and melodies

Niebuhr¹,

Thumm²,

Michalsky³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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“…To address the former, we created a questionnaire in previous works [9,10] to assess the perception of charisma from voice, which allows to distinguish various dimensions of charisma in voice.…”

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“…Based on these criteria, a scale was developed to measure the above qualities in a leader [9]. In a qualitative study, a questionnaire on charisma was submitted to 133 participants (42 female and 16 male French people, 65 female and 10 male Italians), asking them to freely define what charisma is and what it is not, and to list public figures they considered as charismatic and non-charismatic.…”

Section: Charismamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Perception of Charisma from Voice: A Cross-Cultural Study

D’Errico

Signorello

Demolin

et al. 2013

2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

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This paper provides an overview of previous works on the acoustic parameters of charismatic voice and illustrates MASCharP, a scale for measuring the perception of charisma in voice. A study is then presented on the perception of charisma through the temporal and pitch structure of the voices of an Italian and a French politician. Results show some cultural differences in charisma perception and how acoustic features such as pitch (normal, higher, or lower) and types of pauses (short or long) can affect the Proactive-Attractive and CalmBenevolent dimensions of charisma. The same dimension of charisma can be conveyed by different acoustic correlates of voice by connecting them to the dimension of leader extraversionintroversion.

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“…Phonetic studies have shown that acoustic-prosodic parameters are positively correlated with perceived speaker charisma (Strangert and Gustafson, 2008;Rosenberg and Hirschberg, 2009;Signorello et al, 2012;D'Errico et al, 2013;Niebuhr et al, 2016Niebuhr et al, , 2018. For example, higher F0 levels, larger F0 ranges, and faster speaking rates make speakers sound more charismatic.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Female Speakers Benefit More Than Male Speakers From Prosodic Charisma Training—A Before-After Analysis of 12-Weeks and 4-h Courses

2019

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Perceived charisma is an important success factor in professional life. However, women are worse than men in conveying physical charisma signals while at the same time having to perform better than men in order to be perceived equally charismatic. Speech prosody probably contains the most influential charisma signals. We have developed a system called "Pascal" that analyzes and assesses on objective acoustic grounds how well-speakers employ their prosodic charisma parameters. Pascal is used for charismatic-speech training in 12-weeks and 4-h courses on entrepreneurship and leadership. Comparing the prosodic-charisma scores for a total of 72 participants at the beginning and end of these two course types showed that female speakers start with significantly lower prosodic-charisma scores than male speakers. However, at the end of the 4-h course, female speakers can catch up with their male counterparts in terms of prosodic charisma. At the end of the 12-weeks courses, male speakers keep their lead, but female speakers are able to significantly reduce the prosodic charisma gap to male speakers. Since leadership and entrepreneurship are still male-dominated domains, our results can be seen as an encouragement for women to attend prosodic charisma training. Furthermore, these courses require a gender-specific design as we found men to improve mainly in F0 parameters and women in duration and phonation parameters.

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How Charisma Is Perceived from Speech: A Multidimensional Approach

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

Shapes and timing in charismatic speech - Evidence from sounds and melodies

Shapes and timing in charismatic speech - Evidence from sounds and melodies

The Perception of Charisma from Voice: A Cross-Cultural Study

Female Speakers Benefit More Than Male Speakers From Prosodic Charisma Training—A Before-After Analysis of 12-Weeks and 4-h Courses

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