Studies and surveys

As the largest, oldest and leading body in Israel in teaching public speaking and treating stage fright, we are not content to read other people's studies, but also conduct surveys and research ourselves. 

And if you are engaged in research in the social sciences and want to participate in one of our upcoming studies, we would love to hear from you.

Current research: How common is crowd fear in the population?

Our current research focuses on accurately measuring the prevalence of crowd anxiety in the general population, and identifying characteristics that predict crowd anxiety.
Studies of this type (epidemiological) are rare in the world and do not exist at all in Israel, which makes it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment.

Therefore, this study is actually what is called in academia an 'exploratory study' - that is, a study with lots of questions (more than 190 sections!) that is presented to a wide population with the aim of discovering trends.

• The scope of the study: 383 respondents
• The research method: Self-filling questionnaire
• the sample population: Students
• Release Date: May 2020

Research completed: Which politician do Israelis value as a speaker?

In preparation for the upcoming elections, we decided to check how Israelis evaluate their politicians as speakers.
It is not a big surprise that they refer to Netanyahu as the best orator today. But what do they think of Gantz? And Bennett? And how do they treat women (Regev? Shaked?) or minorities (Tibi? Ayman Odeh?). And is our assessment objective? That is, does our gender or political position affect our assessment of the quality of the speaker?

• The scope of the study: 140 respondents
• The research method: Self-filling questionnaire
• the sample population: General population
• Release Date: end of February 2020

Completed study: Eric Einstein syndrome - fear of crowds that appears in old age

According to the psychological literature, fear of crowds appears in or near adolescence, mainly as a result of a critical or demanding environment.

Our experience in the field largely matches the theory, but occasionally we come across exceptions, and they are always of the same type: very successful people, who for years spoke well and a lot, and then suddenly began to develop a fear of the public. Sometimes at the age of 30, 40 and even 50.

We chose to name the phenomenon after Eric Einstein who, after a glorious career on the stage, decided at the age of 42 to disappear from the public eye.

• The scope of the study: 32 interviewees
• The research method: semi-structured in-depth interview (qualitative)
• Release Date: 2015 (two years since Eric Einstein's death)