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How People Look and Sound Has An Impact – Even If You Try Not to Notice
Journal of Sociolinguistics, show that participants evaluated the person in the photo as having a more accented voice if the words they heard also had a stronger accent — despite being told the image and sound were of two different people.“Even though we told them to ignore the voice, they couldn’t do it completely,” said study author Dr. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, an associate professor of linguistics at Ohio State.