Effect of Acting Experience on Emotion Expression and Recognition in Voice: Non-Actors Provide Better Stimuli than Expected

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 195-214

  Jürgens, Rebecca ^a,b   Grass, Annika ^a,b   Drolet, Matthis ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Actors; Emotion; Play acting; Vocal expressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938423549     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-015-0209-5     Document Type: Article

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