How do you say 'hello'? Personality impressions from brief novel voices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  McAleer, Phil ^a   Todorov, Alexander ^b   Belin, Pascal ^a,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; SPEECH; SURVIVAL; VOICE; HEARING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 84897969162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090779     Document Type: Article

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