Dynamic-acoustic variation causes differences in evaluations of laughter

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 96, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 799-809

  Kipper, Silke ^a,b   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Inst für Biol Verhaltensbiol   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0141687183     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.96.3.799     Document Type: Article

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