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	Nervous about speaking? Don't worry - your audience can't tell

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b2d106f4-8575-4c2c-87d2-0b4f8eaf02e0/D84561CA-24C1-4E25-995B-2487CD4CD9D4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/quirky-little-things/200805/speech-anxiety-and-the-illusion-transparency" href="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/quirky-little-things/200805/speech-anxiety-and-the-illusion-transparency" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.psychologytoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/quirky-little-things/200805/speech-anxiety-and-the-illusion-transparency"><P>The authors’ working hypothesis was that an <I>illusion of transparency</I>, whereby speakers believe that their inner anxiety and nervousness is more apparent to the audience than it actually is, triggers a vicious cycle of increasing stress that eventually undermines the speaker’s performance. </p> <P>In their central study, Savitsky and Gilovich explored the possibility that simply informing speakers about the illusion of transparency may reduce speech anxiety and improve the speakers’ performance.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/quirky-little-things/200805/speech-anxiety-and-the-illusion-transparency">The results? Speakers in the informed condition evaluated their own performance more positively than those in the other two conditions</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/quirky-little-things/200805/speech-anxiety-and-the-illusion-transparency">when independent observers actually coded the videotaped talks without knowing which participants were assigned to which condition, those speakers in the informed condition were rated as being more relaxed, more composed, more expressive, more effective, more stylistic, and delivering a better speech overall than those randomly assigned to the other two groups.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D84561CA-24C1-4E25-995B-2487CD4CD9D4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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