What is it about?
It is important to know the effects of a discrepancy between vocal emotion and emotion contained in the literal meaning of speech on the identification of speaker’s emotions. In the current study, two stimulus conditions were prepared: the “congruent condition,” where the emotional meaning of speech was compatible with the tone of voice and the “incongruent condition,” where the emotional meaning of speech was discrepant to the vocal emotions. Results indicated that identification of speaker’s emotion was successful even in the incongruent condition and suggest that Japanese participants infer the speaker’s intended emotion if it is incongruent to the emotional meaning of speech.
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Why is it important?
Except measuring response time, few studies have examined this discrepancy between the emotional meaning of speech and vocal emotion. This study investigates directly the effects of this discrepancy between vocal emotion and emotion contained in the literal meaning of speech on the identification of speaker’s emotions.
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I hope this article might help people know the integration of emotional literal meanings of speech with the vocal emotions of speakers and understand the function of the process might be influenced by cultural communication display rules.
Sumi Shigeno
Gakko Hojin Aoyama Gakuin
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This page is a summary of: Effects of discrepancy between vocal emotion and the emotional meaning of speech on identifying the speaker’s emotions, January 2016, Acoustical Society of America (ASA),
DOI: 10.1121/2.0000405.
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