Annotated bibliography on the subject of fear and anxiety of oral communications
INTRODUCTION: Using the EBSCO research data base, below is my annotated bibliography on three important articles on that subject:
Botella, C., Hofmann, S. G. and Moscovitch D.A.: (2004):
ôA Self-Applied Internet-Based Intervention for Fear of Public Speakingö published online in Wiley InterScience, www.interscience.wiley.com
The internet now has provided some useful tools concerning health. This technology is now the subject of study to alleviate or eliminate the psychological fear of public speaking. The authors have developed a self-0help program called Talk To Me, which is designed to guide the user through the entire therapeutic process, once they learn to trust this system.
Finn, A. N., Sawyer, C. R. and Behnke, R. R.: (2003): ôAudience-perceived anxiety patterns of public speakersö Communications Quarterly, Fall 2003, v. 51, i4 p470(12)
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Anxiety of public speaking seems worse at the beginning and, according to the authors, declines progressively with each minute of public exposure to audiences. Behavioral patterns need further study, which is the ,purpose of this present study; namely, to investigate patterns of state anxiety behaviors during public speaking.
Pertaub, D-P. and Barker, C. (2002): ôAn Experiment on Public Speaking Anxiety in Response to Three Different Types of Virtual Audiencesö Presence, vol. 11 no. 1, February 2002, pp 48-62
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The author consider the fear of public speaking a particular and common type of social phobia. Generally, people who have some sort of social phobia have a strong fear of one or more social performance situations. By using a ôvirtual audienceö that was specially programmed to l...