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The Illusion Of Transparency And Public Speaking: A Study Of Social Anxiety, Chelsea Gloth
The Illusion Of Transparency And Public Speaking: A Study Of Social Anxiety, Chelsea Gloth
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether participants who are informed of a phenomenon termed "the illusion of transparency" (Gilovich, Savitsky & Medvec, 1998) give higher quality speeches, feel and appear less anxious while delivering the speech, and give longer speeches. Participants consisted of 543 students from a Midwestern university. First they completed the FNE (Watson & Friend, 1969), and 31 of those with the top quartile of scores returned to the lab to give a 3-minute speech. Participants in the illusion condition were informed about what the illusion of transparency is, while those in the reassured condition …