Speech Science Forum -- Nadine Lavan
Forming first impressions from voices.
Speech Science Forum -- Nadine Lavan
24 Oct 2024, 15:00 – 16:00
Listeners very quickly form impressions of a person from their voice: Is someone old or young? Trustworthy or untrustworthy? Do we think they are a nice person? In this talk, I will present behavioural and electrophysiological evidence to examine how these very first impressions from voices are formed. First impressions are formed rapidly, within less than a second of exposure. Impressions of physical characteristics of a person, such as age and gender seem to be formed first, with inferred characteristics, such as trustworthiness or educatedness, following later.
Nadine is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, where she also holds a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship. She did her PhD at Royal Holloway between 2013 and 2017 and then worked as a post-doc at Brunel, Royal Holloway, and UCL until joining QMUL in 2020.