title: On the accuracy of adults' auditory perception of normophonic and dysphonic children's personality.
abstract: We investigated the accuracy of auditory inferences of personality of Belgian children with vocal fold nodules (VFN). External judges (n = 57) were asked to infer the personality of normophonic (NP) children and children with VFN (n = 10) on the basis of vowels and sentences. The auditory inferred profiles were compared to the actual personality of NP and VFN children. Positive and partly accurate inferences of VFN children's personality were made on the basis of connected speech, while sustained vowels yielded negative and inaccurate inferences of personality traits of children with VFN. Dysphonic voice quality, as defined by the overall severity of vocal abnormality, conveyed inaccurate and low degrees of extraversion. This effect was counterbalanced in connected speech by faster speaking rate that accurately conveyed higher degrees of extraversion, a characteristic trait of VFN children's actual personality.
authors.affiliation: a Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation , Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium.
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Verduyckt
authors.affiliation: b Centre d'Audiophonologie, Cliniques Universitaires de Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain , Bruxelles , Belgium.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Remacle
authors.affiliation: c Université de Liège, Département de psychologie: cognition et comportement, Unité de la voix , Liège , Belgium.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Morsomme
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000367:Age Factors; D001307:Auditory Perception; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D055154:Dysphonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010898:Pitch Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013240:Stereotyping; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014833:Voice Quality
keywords: Children; dysphonia; perception; personality; stereotype