Persuasive speech: The way we, um, talk sways our listeners

Sunday, May 15, 2011 - 16:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Want to convince someone to do something? A new study has some intriguing insights drawn from how we speak. Researchers found that interviewers who engaged in frequent short pauses were more successful than those who were perfectly fluent.

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