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

• Main Authors: Laukka, Petri, Elfenbein, Hillary Anger, Söder, Nela, Nordström, Henrik, Althoff, Jean, Chui, Wanda, Rockstuhl, Thomas, Iraki, Frederick K., Thingujam, Nutankumar S.
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100016; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18438
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Which emotions are associated with universally recognized non-verbal signals?We address this issue by examining how reliably non-linguistic vocalizations (affect bursts) can convey emotions across cultures. Actors from India, Kenya, Singapore, and USA were instructed to produce vocalizations that wo...