The following study focuses on accommodation of directness in job interviews and aims to explore how the candidate’s convergence to the directness of the interviewer influences the evaluation of the candidate in a job ...

This study aimed to determine whether the use of accommodation in terms of formality in customer service interactions positively influences the attitude towards the conversation, the perception of the agent, and the intention ...

Globalization has led to more interactions between people from different cultures such as job interviews. Previous research has found that candidates are prone to converge their accent to the interviewer. However, few ...

The current study aims to explore the effect of gestures in a communicative setting on language perception. Specifically, native and non-native Spanish speakers exposed to native Spanish speech performed transcription ...

This study investigated the effect of beat gestures on speaker perception. The purpose of the study was to measure comprehensibility, intelligibility, and persuasiveness as perceived by Spanish native and non-native ...

This study looked into the effect language proficiency has on the evaluations of accentedness in an organizational context to combat the discrimination of nonstandard accentedness in the workplace, specifically during the ...

As a result of globalization, organizations are expanding worldwide and are hiring people from different countries. Due to the multicultural workplace, various accents are being spoken which differ from the accent spoken ...

Many people speak more than one language nowadays and this number of bilinguals is still growing. Bilinguals sometimes use their native and second language in the same conversation. This is known as code-switching. Much ...

In het huidige onderzoek wordt de volgende onderzoeksvraag beantwoord: “In hoeverre leidt een pro-sociale advertentie die een overeenkomende stemming heeft met die van de ontvanger tot betere evaluaties van de advertentie ...

Globalization in the whole world has led to the need of using English as a lingua franca, and thus the number of non-native speakers of English has increased. International companies now can recruit international talents ...