Dr. Nathalie Freynet, C.Psych: Accent Discrimination

Comments or feedback? Send us a text! When meeting somebody for the first time, the presence of an accent is one of the first things that we notice. Accent discrimination is form of bias in which we make judgments around a person based on features of their accent. Importantly, accent bias can lead to both negative and positive assumptions about a person’s intelligence, social status, education level and other aspects of an individual. In this episode, Drs. Freynet and Kell...