Listen, follow me: Changes in vocal pitch predict leader emergence

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey T. Cheng ◽  
Jessica L. Tracy ◽  
Simon Ho ◽  
Joseph Henrich
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Author(s):  
Joey T. Cheng ◽  
Jessica L. Tracy ◽  
Simon Ho ◽  
Joseph Henrich
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2021 ◽  
pp. 001872672199845
Author(s):  
Guowei Jian

Does empathy merely take place in leaders’ mind? How does it help us better understand and practice leadership? In the past, entitative relational leadership studies have mainly drawn on a mind-based understanding of empathy and focused on the association between individual empathy trait and leader emergence and effectiveness. Such an approach overlooks leadership practice of empathy as a constructive process. By integrating emerging research from diverse disciplines from philosophy to communication, the paper first offers a constructionist view of empathy, based on which empathic leadership practice is conceptualized. The paper explicates how leadership practice of empathy construction is rooted in relational ethics and takes place in both synchronic dyadic interaction through conversation as well as diachronic narrative practice with a collective other. By conceptualizing empathic leadership practice through a social constructionist approach to empathy, the paper makes significant contributions to our understanding of relational leadership.


2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefa D. Martín-Santana ◽  
Clara Muela-Molina ◽  
Eva Reinares-Lara ◽  
Miriam Rodríguez-Guerra
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Author(s):  
Takahiro Yokozuka ◽  
Hitoshi Miyamoto ◽  
Masatoshi Kasai ◽  
Yoshihiro Miyake ◽  
Takayuki Nozawa

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefa D. Martín-Santana ◽  
Eva Reinares-Lara ◽  
Pedro Reinares-Lara

AbstractIn radio, spokesperson credibility is a resource that can improve the effectiveness of a message, and its analysis requires the study of how voice qualities influence the listener. The aims of this study are to design and test the suitability of a scale of radio spokesperson credibility, and to analyse the effect of the phonoaesthetic function – that is, how a spokesperson’s gender, vocal pitch, accent and their interactions affect their credibility. We conducted a 2 × 2 × 2 experimental design via eight radio programmes in which we inserted a radio spot as stimulus material. The hypotheses were tested on a sample of 987 Spanish radio listeners, and the advertised service was blood donation. The results allowed the validation of a scale of spokesperson credibility, traditionally used in audiovisual media, formed by three dimensions (attractiveness, expertise and trustworthiness), and provide several implications for the selection of a spokesperson for radio.


PROLÍNGUA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-131
Author(s):  
Rogério Marcelino Dos Santos Melo ◽  
Eduardo Lucas Sousa Enéas ◽  
Ericles Ferreira Valões ◽  
Maria Fabiana Bonfim de Lima Silva

Os estudos em linguagem permitem compreender novas dimensões sociais e individuais, por meio da aplicação de diferentes técnicas investigativas sobre o mesmo objeto de estudo. As investigações sobre os aspectos perceptivo-auditivos auxiliam na compreensão dos ajustes do trato vocal, de tensão muscular e fonatórios de um sujeito (CAMARGO e MADUREIRA, 2008). Este trabalho tem como objetivo descrever a qualidade e dinâmica vocal de um falante homossexual do sexo masculino em dois momentos, antes e depois de assumir sua homossexualidade, por meio do roteiro Vocal Profile Analysis Scheme for Brazilian Portuguese - VPAS-PB. A pesquisa do tipo qualitativa é baseada em relato de caso, sendo composta por duas coletas de fala semiespontânea desse sujeito homossexual. As amostras foram obtidas em ambiente acusticamente tratado com intervalo de gravação de três anos; posteriormente as amostras foram avaliadas por um juiz com o uso do roteiro VPAS-PB. Os resultados mostram que o participante, após os três anos, apresentou mudanças: de corpo de língua abaixado para avançado; expansão faríngea para constrição faríngea; de laringe abaixada para laringe elevada; de modal para falsete (intermitente); e o aumento da graduação dos ajustes de mandíbula fechada e hiperfunção do trato vocal. No que se refere aos aspectos de dinâmica vocal: pitch habitual abaixado para elevado; extensão e variabilidade de pitch de diminuído para aumentado, bem como aumentou a graduação da taxa de elocução. Além disso, foi identificado na voz do falante estudado ajustes de lábios estirados e hiperfunção laríngea. Nessa investigação foi possível traçar o perfil vocal do falante homossexual em momentos distintos identificando ajustes marcantes na fala deste sujeito, bem como as relações sociais e de atribuições de significados estabelecidos por esses ajustes.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Schelinski ◽  
Katharina von Kriegstein

We tested the ability to recognise speech-in-noise and its relation to the ability to discriminate vocal pitch in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developed adults (matched pairwise on age, sex, and IQ). Typically developed individuals understood speech in higher noise levels as compared to the ASD group. Within the control group but not within the ASD group, better speech-in-noise recognition abilities were significantly correlated with better vocal pitch discrimination abilities. Our results show that speech-in-noise recognition is restricted in people with ASD. We speculate that perceptual impairments such as difficulties in vocal pitch perception might be relevant in explaining these difficulties in ASD.


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