Article published in:
Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectives
Edited by Katja Pelsmaekers, Geert Jacobs and Craig Rollo
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 56] 2014
► pp. 135–160

Chapter 7. Putting yourself down to build trust

The effect of self-disparaging humor on speaker ethos in educational presentations

Published online: 24 July 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.56.07wac
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