A study of stage fright and the judgment of speaking time

Abstract

In a group of 75 college students, 95% believed that the more afraid a student is, the longer his speaking time will seem to him. The experimental results with 100 students indicated, however, that persons of all degrees of stage fright (judged by their own ratings) make errors in judging a period of inactive or speaking time, there being no significant tendency for degree of stage fright to correlate positively with an estimation of speaking time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)