Basics of public speaking

Human experimental anxiety: actual public speaking induces more intense physiological responses than simulated public speaking.

OBJECTIVES a) To perform a systematic and meta-analytic review to verify whether the Simulated Public Speaking Task (SPST) leads to a greater increase in self-rated anxiety than in physiological correlates of anxiety; and b) to compare the results obtained with the SPST with an actual public speaking task involving healthy volunteers. METHODS a) The PubMed and ISI Web of Knowledge databases w...

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Teaching Public Speaking Over the Decades

Author Information: Public speaking has always been both a professional and personal interest of mine. My interest began in elementary school with my parents playing cassette tapes of great speakers during long road trips. Those speakers inspired me through their words and I in turn began to desire to inspire others through speech. In high school, I pursued speaking through joining the forensic...

The Impact of Stereotypes on Public Speaking Performance and Anxiety

Virtual Reality Therapy: A Means of Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the development of treatments to help people reduce their public speaking anxiety (PSA) in a variety of circumstances. A review of literature suggests that several treatments have been found to be effective in reducing communication apprehension. However, it has not been determined whether Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) has proven to be as...