Vocal Expression of Emotion: Acoustic Properties of Speech Are Associated With Emotional Intensity and Context
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Acoustic properties of speech likely provide external cues about internal emotional processes, a phenomenon called vocal expression of emotion Testing this supposition, we examined fundamental frequency (F 0 ) and two perturbation measures, jitter and shimmer, in short speech samples recorded from subjects performing a lexical decision task Statistically significant differences were found between baseline and on-task values and as interaction effects involving differences in trait levels of emotional intensity and the proportion of success versus failure feedback received These results indicate that acoustic properties of speech can be used to index emotional processes and that characteristic differences in emotional intensity may mediate vocal expression of emotion
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Different discrete emotion categories are not distinguished by distinct patterns of vocal acoustics.
“Different discrete emotion categories are not distinguished by distinct patterns of peripheral physiology (Cacioppo et al. 2000; Mauss & Robinson 2009), facial muscle movements (Cacioppo et al. 2000; Russell, Bachorowski & Fernandez-Dols 2003), vocal acoustics (Bachorowski & Owren 1995; Barrett 2006a; Russell, Bachorowski & Fernandez-Dols 2003) or by subcortical circuits in the mammalian brain (”
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- Authors
- Bachorowski, J.-A., & Owren, M. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1995-07
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 219-224
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W1971362524
- Cited by
- 259
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 4.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Voice and Speech Disorders
- Keywords
- vocal emotion expression, speech acoustics, fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, emotional intensity, lexical decision, emotional processes
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