I like the sound of your voice: Affective learning about vocal signals
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Bliss-Moreau, Eliza
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Univ Calif Davis, Calif Natl Primate Res Ctr, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Davis, CA 95616 USAUniv Calif Davis, Calif Natl Primate Res Ctr, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Davis, CA 95616 USA
Bliss-Moreau, Eliza
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Owren, Michael J.
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Georgia State Univ, Dept Psychol, Atlanta, GA 30303 USAUniv Calif Davis, Calif Natl Primate Res Ctr, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Davis, CA 95616 USA
Owren, Michael J.
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Barrett, Lisa Feldman
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Harvard Univ, Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Martinos Ctr Biomed Imaging, Psychiat Neuroimaging Res Program,Sch Med, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Boston Coll, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 USAUniv Calif Davis, Calif Natl Primate Res Ctr, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Davis, CA 95616 USA
Barrett, Lisa Feldman
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[1] Univ Calif Davis, Calif Natl Primate Res Ctr, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Martinos Ctr Biomed Imaging, Psychiat Neuroimaging Res Program,Sch Med, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] Boston Coll, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 USA
[4] Georgia State Univ, Dept Psychol, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
This paper provides the first demonstration that the content of a talker's speech is sufficient to imbue the acoustics of his voice with affective meaning. In two studies, participants listened to male talkers utter positive, negative, or neutral words. Next, participants completed a sequential evaluative priming task where a neutral word spoken by one of talkers was presented before each target word to be evaluated. We predicted, and found, that voices served as evaluative primes influencing the speed with which participants evaluated the target words. These two experiments demonstrate that the human voice can take on affective meaning merely based on the positive or negative value words it has spoken. Implications for affective processing, the pragmatics of communication, and person perception are discussed. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.