Insightful Interactive Map Showing How Short Wordless Vocal Bursts Can Express a Wide Range of Emotions
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Researchers Alan S. Cowen, Hilary Anger Elfenbein, Petri Laukka and Dacher Keltner have created a fascinating interactive map that visualizes how short, wordless vocal bursts can express an array of 24 different emotions. The information for this fascinating chart comes from an incredibly insightful collaborative paper that was published through the American Psychological Association.
Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Interactive U.S. Map That Visualizes the Popularity of Baby Names from the Early 1900s to the PresentA Map of How Emotional Reactions Originate in the BodyAn Interactive Map of the US That Shows Travel Times From New York City for the Period 1800-1930We find that vocal bursts convey at least 24 distinct kinds of emotion. Emotion categories (sympathy, awe), more so than affective appraisals (including valence and arousal), organize emotion recognition. In contrast to discrete emotion theories, the emotion categories conveyed by vocal bursts are bridged by smooth gradients with continuously varying meaning. We visualize the complex, high-dimensional space of emotion conveyed by brief human vocalization within an online interactive map.
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