From YaleNews, March 24, 2025
“Now that videoconferencing has become so ubiquitous, we wondered how the sounds of people’s voices might be influencing others’ impressions, beyond the actual words they speak,” said senior author Brian Scholl, professor of psychology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Wu Tsai Institute. “Every experiment we conducted showed that a familiar tinny or hollow sound associated with a poor-quality microphone negatively affects people’s impressions of a speaker — independent of the message conveyed.”