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Social power and recognition of emotional prosody: High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power

Uskul, A.K.; Paulmann, S.; Weick, M.

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A.K. Uskul

S. Paulmann



Abstract

Listeners have to pay close attention to a speaker’s tone of voice (prosody) during daily conversations. This is particularly important when trying to infer the emotional state of the speaker. While a growing body of research has explored how emotions are processed from speech in general, little is known about how psycho-social factors such as social power can shape the perception of vocal emotional attributes. Thus, the present studies explored how social power affects emotional prosody recognition. In a correlational (Study 1) and an experimental study (Study 2), we show that high power is associated with lower accuracy in emotional prosody recognition than low power. These results, for the first time, suggest that individuals experiencing high or low power perceive emotional language differently.

Citation

Uskul, A., Paulmann, S., & Weick, M. (2016). Social power and recognition of emotional prosody: High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power. Emotion, 16(1), 11-15. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000110

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 8, 2015
Online Publication Date Feb 1, 2016
Publication Date Feb 1, 2016
Deposit Date Sep 12, 2018
Publicly Available Date Sep 18, 2018
Journal Emotion
Print ISSN 1528-3542
Electronic ISSN 1931-1516
Publisher American Psychological Association
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 1
Pages 11-15
DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000110
Keywords Emotional prosody recognition; Social power
Related Public URLs http://kar.kent.ac.uk/49512/

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