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Abstract
Imagined interactions (IIs) constitute a type of social cognition that can reduce fear of communication. Through the mental preparation enabled by IIs, an individual can reduce disfluencies and mitigate the anxiety that arises from a speech. Study 1 indicated that rehearsal influences the reduction of silent pauses but not vocalized pauses. In addition, those who reported higher levels of communication apprehension demonstrated more total disfluencies throughout the speech. Study 2 examined how utilizing mixed modes of imagery can affect the rehearsal process in comparison to visualizing (VIS) an encounter alone. The results indicated that a rehearsal consisting of both II training and the mixed modes of imagery resulted in more overall fluency in speech and in higher self-reported speech evaluations.
Notes
[1] Querea, Bakeman, and Gnisci (Citation2007) discuss using observational windows in order to reflect the temporal order of coder agreement. They provide examples of how simply reporting correlation coefficients fail to reveal the timing of agreement. For example, using the total number of onsets for the 2-min time period does not reveal the location of coder agreements/ disagreements. An intraclass correlation of .91 was used when summing across the 2-min time period. The idea of a moving time window results in more precise estimates of coder agreement. Coders may agree on the total number of behaviors occurring while completely disagreeing on when they occurred.