Social cognition refers to a set of processes, ranging from perception to decision‐making,
underlying the ability to decode others' intentions and behaviors to plan actions fitting with …

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its
own field of study. Because the study of emotion draws inspiration from areas of science …

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 …

Most research on the neurobiology of language ignores consciousness and vice versa.
Here, language, with an emphasis on inner speech, is hypothesised to generate and sustain …

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 …

The beneficial influence of listening to music on anxiety states has often been discussed.
However, the empirical evidence and theoretical mechanisms underlying these effects …

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

We provide the outline of a semantics for music. We take music cognition to be continuous
with normal auditory cognition, and thus to deliver inferences about “virtual sources” of the …

The experience of what we eat depends not only on the taste of the food, but also on other
modalities of sensory feedback. Perceptual research has shown the potential of altering …

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