For over a century, psychology has focused on uncovering mental processes of a single
individual. However, humans rarely navigate the world in isolation. The most important …

Researchers examining nonverbal communication of emotions are becoming increasingly
interested in differentiations between different positive emotional states like interest, relief …

Persuasion success is often related to hard-to-measure characteristics, such as the way the
persuader speaks. To examine how vocal tones impact persuasion in an online appeal, this …

Voice synthesis is a useful method for investigating the communicative role of different
acoustic features. Although many text-to-speech systems are available, researchers of …

Social interaction research is lacking an experimental paradigm enabling researchers to
make causal inferences in free social interactions. For instance, the expressive signals that …

While acoustic analysis methods have become a commodity in voice emotion research,
experiments that attempt not only to describe but to computationally manipulate expressive …

Emotions play a major role in how interpersonal conflicts unfold. Although several strategies
and technological approaches have been proposed for emotion regulation, they often …

Predictive coding has played a transformative role in the study of psychosis, casting
delusions and hallucinations as statistical inference in a system with abnormal precision …

A wealth of theoretical and empirical arguments have suggested that music triggers
emotional responses by resembling the inflections of expressive vocalizations, but have …

Research in affective computing and cognitive science has shown the importance of
emotional facial and vocal expressions during human-computer and human-human …