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The truth can be stuttered: Rethinking what it means to be a good speaker 

Josh Compton, Professor of Speech and covert stutterer, has been thinking about voice all his life, from his childhood struggles with fluency to his recent research on public speaking…

Being the voice: A conversation with Josh and Trumie

My nonspeaking son is a great speech teacher. JOSH COMPTON Being the Voice: A Conversation with Josh and Trumie. Windsor School. October 17, 2022.

Reframing public speaking with a stutter

I was once asked how I succeeded in my career as a as a speech professor in spite of my stutter. And now I can say quite confidently…

Inoculation theory of resistance to influence

Inoculation theory of resistance to influence. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, August 31, 2022.

Inoculation theory and climate communication

Inoculation is a powerful approach to communicating climate–preempting rather than reacting to misinformation. JOSH COMPTON Inoculation theory and climate communication. Dartmouth Symposium on Climate, Energy and Society. Irving…

Opinion Science Podcast

Episode #49: Inoculating against persuasion with Josh Compton. Opinion Science. October 25, 2021. Josh Compton studies how “inoculating” people against persuasion can make them more resistant to arguments they…

Center for Generative Communication, University of Florence in Florence, Italy

Inoculation theory. Center for Generative Communication, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. January 14, 2019.

King Scholars/FYSEP Programs at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, United States

Public speaking & dialogue. Invited by King Scholars/FYSEP Programs, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States. December 4, 2018 https://students.dartmouth.edu/king-scholars/

Belief Default Symposium at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

And in the end—this pseudo-medical treatment that takes the form of logical analysis is intended to result in more robust, more resilient knowledge structures—of a critical rebuttal of…

NATO USSOCOM Joint Senior Psychological Operations Conference in Tampa, Florida, United States

“Your presentation was one of the top conversations of the conference…” Douglas Jordan, SOF SC – Course Director, Center for Continuing Education, Join Special Operations University Inoculation theory….