Cross-cultural decoding of positive and negative non-linguistic emotion vocalizationscross-cultural decoding of positive and negative non-linguistic emotion vocalizations

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Laukka, Petri ^a   Elfenbein, Hillary Anger ^b   Söder, Nela ^a   Nordström, Henrik ^a   Althoff, Jean ^c   Chui, Wanda ^d   Iraki, Frederick K ^e   Rockstuhl, Thomas ^f   Thingujam, Nutankumar S ^g  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g SIKKIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Affect bursts; Cross cultural; Emotion recognition; Non verbal behavior; Positive emotions; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885401991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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