Resumen de Voice almighty
British psychologist Tom Hatherley Pear wanted "to discover what actually goes on in the minds of different listeners" as they tuned into programs "presenting the voice and nothing besides." So he recruited nine people--ranging from his 11-year-old daughter to a judge and a minister--to read aloud on air a passage from The Pickwick Papers, in which Dickens describes a comically unsuccessful outing on ice skates. Pear had identified something that people perhaps all know instinctively, that the voice can be powerfully suggestive. Whether they are eavesdropping from another room or taking a phone call at work, the way someone speaks can paint a clear picture of a person, their personality and even provide a sense of their history. But often, they won't be aware of this, nor of the way these impressions are influencing their behavior. Here, O'Callaghan finds that people's dulce tones affect everything from their sex appeal to their bank balance, but they can also wildly misrepresent them.
