Vocal Fundamental Frequency and Sound Pressure Level in Charismatic Speech: A Cross-Gender and -Language Study

Signorello, Rosario; Demolin, Didier; Bernardoni, Nathalie Henrich; Gerratt, Bruce R.; Zhang, Zhaoyan; Kreiman, Jody

doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2019.04.007

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“…Bono and Ilies 2006) as well as a positive effect of emotionally arousing words on charisma perceptions (Hypothesis 1b, cf. Rosenberg and Hirschberg 2009;Signorello et al 2020). As far as the dimension of dominance is concerned, we could not advance a clear directional hypothesis, given the established cultural sensitivity of the charisma correlate "powerful" (Biadsy et al 2008) and lack of existing studies on charisma in the United Kingdom (the present study's cultural context).…”

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“…We propose to randomize participant selection, to ensure that each individual of the population has the same chances to be included in the sample, leading to a more unbiased sample. Most importantly, conceptualisation and measurement of emotional content in Bono and Ilies (2006) shows four challenges considering research on emotions and charisma (Barrett and Russell 1999;Signorello et al 2020). First, the authors exclude emotional negativity in their investigation, even if they discuss a potential impact of negative emotions on charisma perceptions.…”

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“…positive psychology (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2014) and transformational leadership theory (Bass 1999). How-ever, studies suggest that negative emotions might also play a role in charisma perceptions when they establish an authoritarian-threatening charisma style (Signorello et al 2020) and explore how fearing the status quo is a strategy of charismatic leadership in social change (Seyranian and Bligh 2008). Therefore, we propose to investigate how charisma perceptions are influenced by emotionally valent content, ranging on a continuum from negativity to positivity.…”

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“…Empirical research indicates that arousal and dominance might potentially play a role for speakers' perceived charisma (Biadsy et al 2008;D'Errico et al 2013). Studies find that the perception of speakers as charismatic correlates with perceiving them as powerful, dynamic and enthusiastic (Biadsy et al 2008;Rosenberg and Hirschberg 2009;Signorello et al 2020). Seeing speakers as powerful might be triggered by the dominance dimension, while perceiving speakers as dynamic and enthusiastic might be influenced by messages which are emotionally arousing.…”

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“…Overall, the importance of linguistic aspects of messages and specifically the message delivery for speakers' perceived charisma has long been recognised (Seyranian and Bligh 2008), though only few studies give detailed accounts of the relevant linguistic features (Niebuhr et al 2016;Rosenberg and Hirschberg 2009;Signorello 2014;Seyranian and Bligh 2008). The overarching goal of the present study is to identify linguistic features that can reliably increase perceptions of leaders' charisma in written as well as spoken modality, given that previous studies predominately investigate the effect of linguistic features in only one modality (Biadsy et al 2008;D'Errico et al 2013;Gardner 2003;Signorello et al 2020).…”

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Perception of charisma in text and speech

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The perception of leaders as charismatic personalities has been linked to the level of (positive) emotion in their messages. The present paper reports a cross-modal perception study on the relationship between perceived charisma and positive as well as negative emotions. One hundred forty-nine participants listened or read Brexit speeches by four British politicians (David Cameron, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage, Theresa May) and rated their charisma using a 7-point Likert scale. Emotions in speeches were quantified on three dimensions (valence, arousal, dominance) and supplemented by analyses of person deixis (I vs. we). Results revealed that effects of emotions on perceived charisma are moderated by the modality of speeches. Emotionally positive words as well as inclusive person deixis increased charisma ratings in written messages, but the effect was reduced or not present in auditory versions of these messages. Implications arise for studies of political discourse that tend to focus on scripted speeches.

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Effect of medical mask on voice in patients with dysphonia

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ObjectiveMedical masks have been shown to significantly influence speech communication in healthy people. The effect of mask‐wearing on phonatory capability and daily communication exchanges in patients with voice disorders remains unclear. To evaluate the effect of the medical mask on acoustic parameters in patients with a voice disorder, we measured the voice frequency, quality, and intensity.MethodsThirty‐three healthy and 44 voice disorder patients were involved in this study, including 27 patients with vocal‐fold lesions and 17 with primary functional dysphonia. Perceptual evaluation and acoustic parameters, including F0 (fundamental frequency), jitter, shimmer, and maximum vocal intensity, were analyzed without and with medical masks.ResultsWith medical mask‐wearing, the maximum vocal intensity significantly decreased in all patients with voice disorders (p < 0.05), especially in patients with lesions of vocal folds (p < 0.05) and functional dysphonia (p < 0.05). The perceptual evaluation roughness scales also increased in patients with lesions of vocal folds (p < 0.05) and functional dysphonia (p < 0.05) with mask‐wearing. There were no significant effects of mask‐wearing on acoustic parameters for healthy participants.ConclusionsThe intensity was influenced when wearing medical masks in patients with disordered voices. The voice perceptual roughness scales also significantly increased compared to those without medical masks.

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The Voice of the People: Populism and Donald Trump’s Use of Informal Voice

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Many studies have examined characteristic verbal aspects of Donald J. Trump’s political communication, from his authoritarian rhetoric to his preference for short words and simple sentences, as expressions of his populism. This article focuses on his use of non-verbal voice quality. In analyzing the “Trump rallies” and other materials from his successful campaigning before the 2016 United States presidential election, I argue that Trump’s evocative and meaningful uses of pitch, amplitude, speech rate, rhythm, and other vocal measures combine to make his paralanguage exceptionally and counter-normatively informal, and that this informality amplifies his explicitly populist messaging. I conclude by suggesting that Trump’s informal voice solves an important problem for him: It allows him to express his populism with a deeply personal undertone, and thereby potentially to make his claims to popular identification ring intuitively true.

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Vocal Fundamental Frequency and Sound Pressure Level in Charismatic Speech: A Cross-Gender and -Language Study

Cited by 9 publications

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Perception of charisma in text and speech

Perception of charisma in text and speech

Effect of medical mask on voice in patients with dysphonia

The Voice of the People: Populism and Donald Trump’s Use of Informal Voice

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