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our foreign accent undermines a person's credibility in raise that the speaker and the listener don't consciously realise, new research at the University of Chicago shows. Because an accent makes a person harder to understand listeners unless likely to find what the person say is truthful, researchers found the problem off credibility increases with the severity of the accent. The results have important implications for how people perceive non native speakers off language, particularly as mobility increases in the modern world, leading millions of people to be non native speakers of the language they use daily said. Was Keyssar, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and an expert on communication. Accent might reduce the credibility off non natives, jobseekers, eye witnesses, reporters or people taking calls and foreign call centres, said she really Ivy League daughter off. Why don't we believe Non Native Speakers? The Influence ofthe Accent on Credibility, Written with Keyssar and published in the current issue off the Journal Off Experimental Social Psychology, Levy is a post doctoral research at the university whose work focuses on the interactions between native and non native speakers. To test the impact off accent on credibility, American participants were asked to judge the truthfulness of trivial statements by native or non native speakers of English, such as a giraffe can go without water or longer than a camel can. Simple prejudice could affect ratings of truthfulness. So the researchers tried to minimise that effect by telling participants the information in the statements was prepared for the speakers and was not based on the speakers or knowledge.