Cross-cultural decoding of positive and negative nonlinguistic emotion vocalizations

Which emotions are associated with universally recognized nonverbal signals? We address this issue by examining how reliably nonlinguistic vocalizations (affect bursts) can convey emotions across cultures. Actors from India, Kenya, Singapore and USA were instructed to produce vocalizations that woul...

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Main Authors: Petri eLaukka, Hillary Anger eElfenbein, Nela eSöder, Henrik eNordström, Jean eAlthoff, Wanda eChui, Frederick Kang'ethe eIraki, Thomas eRockstuhl, Nutankumar S. Thingujam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00353/full