Persuasive speech: The way we, um, talk sways our listeners - 3 views
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Ryan Catalani on 26 Jul 11""Interviewers who spoke moderately fast, at a rate of about 3.5 words per second, were much more successful at getting people to agree than either interviewers who talked very fast or very slowly," said Jose Benki... variation in pitch could be helpful for some interviewers but for others, too much pitch variation sounds artificial, like people are trying too hard. ... "People who pause too much are seen as disfluent. But it was interesting that even the most disfluent interviewers had higher success rates than those who were perfectly fluent.""