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Scientists discovered the real reason people put on a posh phone voice – Telegraph.co.uk
Tiny changes in the brain occur when we speak to people from different social backgrounds, scientists have discovered
Putting on a posh telephone voice or speaking Estuary English has long been a source of ridicule in Britains class obsessed society.
But now a new scientific study has suggested that changing the way we talk when interacting with people from a different social class may be something that is out of our control.
Researchers who monitored brain function among people from a wide range of backgrounds found that subjects undergo clear neurological changes depending on who they are speaking to.
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