January 15, 2016

January 15, 2016

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader,

When we look, or better yet, listen to, the postcedent events that will reliably follow Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB), we can’t miss the many positive social consequences. SVB results in an increased attention, exploration, playfulness and wonder. The most sublime consequence for the SVB speaker is when the listener becomes a SVB speaker. Then, there occurs an increasingly more refined, better attuned and mutually reinforcing interaction. If SVB can continue, there occurs an increase of SVB instances and a decrease of NVB instances for all the other communicators. The refinement of our interaction will be exciting, energizing, full of humor, dynamic and fulfilling for all those involved. 

If on past occasions these effects have been repeatedly obtained, if listeners who transformed into SVB speakers have contributed to the interaction, if SVB was effective as it was reinforced by many new opportunities for improved and enhanced social relationships, we can predict with high probability: if we listen to ourselves while we speak and switch from Voice I to Voice II, we will be able to engage in SVB, which will then be followed by tremendously beneficial consequences. 

However, as long as we don’t listen to ourselves while we speak, we can’t and don’t differentiate between Voice I and II and therefore we produce high rates of Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB), which has social disintegration and negative emotions as a consequence. NVB will leave us with a different environment than SVB. The energy transfer that occurs between NVB and its consequences will make the listener feel abused as he or she is aversively impacted by the coercive speaker.