Public Speaking

Human experimental anxiety: actual public speaking induces more intense physiological responses than simulated public speaking.

OBJECTIVES a) To perform a systematic and meta-analytic review to verify whether the Simulated Public Speaking Task (SPST) leads to a greater increase in self-rated anxiety than in physiological correlates of anxiety; and b) to compare the results obtained with the SPST with an actual public speaking task involving healthy volunteers. METHODS a) The PubMed and ISI Web of Knowledge databases w...

Teaching Public Speaking Over the Decades

Author Information: Public speaking has always been both a professional and personal interest of mine. My interest began in elementary school with my parents playing cassette tapes of great speakers during long road trips. Those speakers inspired me through their words and I in turn began to desire to inspire others through speech. In high school, I pursued speaking through joining the forensic...

Overcoming the fear of public speaking.

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The Impact of Stereotypes on Public Speaking Performance and Anxiety

Multichannel Attention Network for Analyzing Visual Behavior in Public Speaking

Public speaking is an important aspect of human communication and interaction. The majority of computational work on public speaking concentrates on analyzing the spoken content, and the verbal behavior of the speakers. While the success of public speaking largely depends on the content of the talk, and the verbal behavior, non-verbal (visual) cues, such as gestures and physical appearance also...