Accents in speech hurt credibility: study
A thick non-English accent can hurt your credibility, a new University of Chicago study finds.
Speakers with a noticeable accent were seen as less credible than those with no accent, largely because Americans who are native English speakers find them harder to understand, the study found. The thicker the accent, the less credible they came across as.
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