The data comes from a ubiquitous online system, ROC Speak (Fung et al., 2015), that gives people semi-automated feedback on public speaking. One hundred and fifty eight participants, aged 18 to 54 ...

An interesting pilot study conducted by my lab found that people preferred to administer small but uncomfortable shocks to themselves than give a 5-min speech about their personal attributes. It might ...

Forgive me for repeating an old Jerry Seinfeld joke, but I tell it to make a point. “According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking,” said Seinfeld. “Number two is death. Death ...