Acoustic profiles of distinct emotional expressions in laughter.

Autor: Szameitat DP; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany. d.szameitat@gmx.de, Alter K, Szameitat AJ, Wildgruber D, Sterr A, Darwin CJ
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America [J Acoust Soc Am] 2009 Jul; Vol. 126 (1), pp. 354-66.
DOI: 10.1121/1.3139899
Abstrakt: Although listeners are able to decode the underlying emotions embedded in acoustical laughter sounds, little is known about the acoustical cues that differentiate between the emotions. This study investigated the acoustical correlates of laughter expressing four different emotions: joy, tickling, taunting, and schadenfreude. Analysis of 43 acoustic parameters showed that the four emotions could be accurately discriminated on the basis of a small parameter set. Vowel quality contributed only minimally to emotional differentiation whereas prosodic parameters were more effective. Emotions are expressed by similar prosodic parameters in both laughter and speech.
Databáze: MEDLINE