Voice and Personality

Abstract

PROF. PEAR has a place of his own among contemporary psychologists. His mind does not work on orthodox academic lines, and his writings are all the more refreshing on that account. Armed with his psychological equipment, he attacks such problems as remembering and forgetting, work and play, and study—topics that appeal to the whole educated public. In the present volume he brings together the results of preliminary research on a subject neglected by the ordinary systematic psychologist, the subject of voices, and of their significance as expressive of personality. Anyone who has had experience of interviewing candidates, or who has tried to analyse the secrets of success on platform or in pulpit, is aware of the subtle effects of voices; and in our time, broadcasting, the sound-film, and the gramophone specially suggest the study of voices.