Publications by authors named "Frederick K Iraki"
The current study investigated what can be understood from another person's tone of voice. Participants from five English-speaking nations (Australia, India, Kenya, Singapore, and the United States) listened to vocal expressions of nine positive and nine negative affective states recorded by actors from their own nation. In response, they wrote open-ended judgments of what they believed the actor was trying to express.
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- This study investigates how emotional expressions in vocal tone vary across cultures, providing a direct test of dialect theory which suggests that people are better at recognizing emotions from their own cultural group.
- Study 1 analyzed voice samples from 100 actors from five English-speaking countries expressing 11 different emotions, revealing both similarities and unique differences in how emotions are acoustically expressed.
- Study 2 confirmed that listeners from different cultural backgrounds can accurately identify emotional expressions, but demonstrated that in-group members had an advantage, particularly for certain emotions, highlighting the nuanced relationship between cultural context and emotional communication.
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- The study explores how non-verbal vocalizations (affect bursts) can effectively communicate emotions across various cultures, focusing on actors from India, Kenya, Singapore, and the USA.
- Participants were able to recognize both positive and negative emotions with accuracy above chance, particularly excelling at identifying emotions like relief and anger.
- However, self-conscious emotions such as guilt, pride, and shame were less recognizable, indicating that these emotions are not as effectively conveyed through non-linguistic vocalizations.