"Worth a Thousand Words": Absolute and Relative Decoding of Nonlinguistic Affect Vocalizations

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-305

  Hawk, Skyler T ^a   van Kleef, Gerben A ^a   Fischer, Agneta H ^a   van der Schalk, Job ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

emotion decoding; facial expressions; nonlinguistic affect vocalizations; social functions of emotion; vocal prosody

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTEMPT; DISGUST; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIDE; SADNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

AFFECT; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 66949151452     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015178     Document Type: Article

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