Evaluation sensitivity and physical sensations of stress as components of public speaking state anxiety

Somatic Anxiety Patterns Before, During, and After Giving a Public Speech

“…On the other hand, the increase in somatic responses at release could have been triggered by post-speech audience reactions, such as the level or duration of the audience's applause or the speaker's expectations of audience reactions to the presentation. Previous research has found evaluation sensitivity, as measured by scores on the Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) test (Clark & McManus, 2002), to be correlated with public speaking state anxiety (e.g., Horvath, Moss, Xie, Sawyer, & Behnke, 2004). It also should be noted that a rise in somatic anxiety indicators after the conclusion of a significant communication event is not wholly without precedent.…”

A Racing Heart, Rattling Knees, and Ruminative Thoughts: Defining, Explaining, and Treating Public Speaking Anxiety

“…explain the individual differences in temperament traits'' (p. 135). In other words, individual differences in psychological reactivity (measured using self-report methods) are merely proxies for physiological traits (for examples of PSA research using measures of psychological reactivity, see Clay, Fisher, Xie, Horvath, Moss, Xie, Sawyer, & Behnke, 2004;Kopecky, Sawyer, & Behnke, 2004;Winters et al, 2007).…”

Teaching virtual presentation with a theory‐based feedback intervention: An experiential class project for the postpandemic era

“…The speaker should keep the presentation short to outcompete the distractions (Abrahams, 2016) and leave time for effective repetition of the main messages. According to communication experts, an oral presentation should not be any longer than 18 min (Gallo, 2014; 2017), while a brief oral presentation is typically a 3‐ to 5‐min speech (Horvath et al., 2004; Sleigh, 2013) followed by questions.…”