Typically Italian, isn't it? Accent shapes our perception of a person

Friday, December 17, 2010 - 10:32 in Psychology & Sociology

The accent someone talks in plays a crucial role in the way we judge this person, psychologists of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, found out recently. "The accent is much more important than the way a person looks", Dr. Tamara Rakic sums up one of the key findings of the study, which has just been published in the online edition of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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