Jonathan Him Nok Lee

Does disfluency affect social judgments and decisions? Evidence from spontaneous speech.

Disfluency in speech (e.g., English um and uh, also known as filled pauses) has long been argued to have social costs for the speaker. However, this conclusion is based on a limited set of measures obtained for scripted, lab-recorded speech. Here, using stimuli from spontaneous speech and an expanded set of social trai...