Journal

Science · 1 min read

EBCP — Emotion-Based Collaborative Prompting

Our framework for using small cognitive-load primes to surface a speaker's authentic baseline before any training interventions.

Science · 1 min read

NECP — Naming Emotions Collaborative Prompting

How naming emotions in the corporate workplace reduces emotional bias in competence assessments and provides a scalable method for measuring learnability.

Voice · 2 min read

Women’s confident voice sounds different than men’s

Men mostly follow the low-pitch script — their most confident statements are their lowest ones. Women don't do that. They go higher in pitch for confident statements too. What they use instead is a lot of variety in the pitch, plus more volume.

Voice · 2 min read

Happy voice less recognizable than an angry or sad voice?

Now, what does this mean for a public speaker? When talking about a sad or angry moment in your speech, it's more important to carry it with your voice — deepen it and slow down for sadness, push the pitch and pace up for anger. Less attention needs to go to body posture or making an angry or sad face. It's mostly about the voice. When it comes to the happy moment, it's not that important to emphasize it with a change in pitch, variance or tempo — because your voice will undersell it anyway. What actually works here is a wide, genuine smile of yours.