[New post] We Find It Hard To Identify The Emotions Of Intense Screams And Moans

BPS Research Digest posted: " By Emily Reynolds Facial expressions can be hard to read — and not just when someone is experiencing a mild emotion or feels ambivalent. Research has suggested that when we witness someone in the throes of a particularly acute emotional state, like in" New post on Research Digest We Find It Hard To Identify The Emotions Of Intense Screams And Moans by BPS Research Digest By Emily Reynolds Facial expressions can be hard to read — and not just when someone is experiencing a mild emotion or feels ambivalent. Research has suggested that when we witness someone in the throes of a particularly acute emotional state, like intense joy or pain, we find it hard to pinpoint exactly what they're feeling. A new study looks at a similar phenomenon, this time focusing on vocalisations such as laughter, cries, screams and moans. Writing in Scientific Reports, Natalie Holz and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics find that our ability to identify emotions increases as vocalisations become more intense — but only to a point. When these sounds reach peak intensity, we find it surprisingly hard to classify them. Read more of this post BPS Research Digest | June 30, 2021 at 3:07 pm | Categories: Emotion, Perception | URL: https://wp.me/p7Lf0f-b7t Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Research Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/06/30/we-find-it-hard-to-identify-the-emotions-of-intense-screams-and-moans/