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Check your phone up and out
The classic shame posture is a chin pointed down, shoulders hunched up, and arms tucked tight, with the neck protected. That is how most people look when they check their phone. People do it before a date and before a presentation, so they slide into defeat body language several times a day without noticing.
Hunched over, breathing gets harder, oxygen drops, and the voice slips into vocal fry. Held up and out, the phone lifts the chin so the jugular stays visible and the body keeps its space. Texting works fine from that position, and resting the arms on a table does too, since the eyes are still looking out.
Why do people slump after losing?
In a 2008 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jessica Tracy and David Matsumoto photographed judo athletes at the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Athletes who had just lost showed what the researchers called the shame display: narrowed chests and slumped shoulders. Athletes who were born blind showed the same displays, though they could never have seen anyone else make them.
What makes vocal fry sound creaky?
Vocal fry happens when the vocal folds vibrate slowly and loosely, producing a low, rattling pulse of sound. Linguists often call it creaky voice. It tends to appear when airflow drops, such as at the end of a sentence. Linguists have documented it as a normal feature of speech in many languages.
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