One day last week, five Romney staffers could be found criticizing Gingrich on Twitter, even adding the hashtag "unhinged" to their tweets to help spread that negative perception of the former speaker.
Given our ethnically diverse speaker sample, we further ask how the coder's perception of a speaker's ethnicity interacts with their vocalization coding decisions.
Moreover, such a choice can also reflect the speaker's perception of the potential response from the hearer and help him construct a desirable self-image.
Altogether, the findings suggest that sensorimotor processes may have multiple functions in visual perception of a speaker's face during face-to-face communication.
Recanati calls this view anti-inferentialist in that "communication is as direct as perception" (Recanati 2002: 109): the processing of the speaker's intentions is direct, automatic, and unreflective.
While this is speculative, environmental effects such as culture are known to affect neural processing (Goh et al. 2007, 2010) and it is therefore conceivable that these historical rivalries shape language attitudes and thereby the perception of accented speakers.
As well as providing an excellent example of the power of swearing, the line was also the starting point for psychologists from Northern Illinois University, who were interested in whether swearing can influence people's perception of the credibility and persuasiveness of a speaker.
In the Governors Island chapel, "we're creating a sensory perception event with the throw of the sound of the speaker," Thorpe said during the installation phase.
