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By Eric Barker
Barker is the author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Via The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism:
Want your voice to to convey more warmth? Just smile:
There’s only one thing you need to do in order to project more warmth in your voice: smile. Smiling affects how we speak to such an extent that listeners in one study could identify sixteen different kinds of smiles based on sound alone. This is why it’s worth smiling even when on the phone.
This piece originally appeared on Barking Up the Wrong Tree.
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