A Failure To Communicate

AUTHOR: Pamela Paul
PUBLICATION NAME: The New York Times.
DATE OF PUBLICATION: August 29, 2010
SUMMARY: This article is basically on the fact of knowledge that if someone speaks English to you in an accent, you are less likely to believe what he or she is trying to tell you. I would say this is majority true unless it is a big threat to me or for the sakes of others. They also did research as when you are reading font in newspapers and magazines. If it is typed neat, then you believe what it is saying, but if it is wet and hardly able to see, then people don't take much offense to what the article has to say. They did an experiment with 35 people, some speaking with different accents and their studies related to what they thought the outcome was going to be. This isn't really important to know of in the field of Psychology, but it gives people the more expanding knowledge and research to look for when they come along people with heavy accents. Thus article does not counter exist any research done in the past. It agrees to what other articles to what people wrote about people with heavy accents. It is human nature that people intend to think about strangers that they do not know that they are more helpful or trustworthy when speaking English precisely. Some people might think this is absurd but when you truely think about it, you find that it is actually done by a lot of Americans and there isn't a number out yet, but I wonder what the percentage is of those people are. For me, with strangers, I would think on first reactions about those who speak with accents that they wern't as well educated than those who speak English without an accent.
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ARTICLE: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/fashion/29studied.html
SUBMITTED BY: Matthew Menezes