So many of you know that I’m also a psychology major, but the thing I’m interested in most is social psychology, which is why this article I want to share with you really sparked my interest. The article is about how accents affect our relationships and I think being theatre majors we all understand the importance of voice and talked about how accents can affect a piece. The article explains that as humans we create relationship networks largely based on the race, gender and age of others. But recent research shows that when you add accents to the mix, race becomes less important and we are instead drawn more to people with the same accents as ourselves. Interestingly, it is most often the case that people with non-native accents will be discriminated against even if they are fluent speakers of the language. I’ve kind of experienced this myself speaking German with my American accent to Austrians in Vienna, so I can assure it’s true and another reason why I was drawn to this article. You should really check it out, it’s very interesting!
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