On the role of vocal emotions in social decision-making

Caballero, Jesús Pérez; Díaz, Marina Ménez

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“…This could be because distress cues are a powerful tool to elicit care, and being able to 'read' them could promote prosocial behaviours, such as helping a crying child [81]. Regarding vocal emotions, decreased cooperative behaviour was observed in adults towards partners displaying emotional prosody of anger, fear and disgust [82]. However, this was found in a study focused on decisions to cooperate in a social decision-making paradigm, and participants' ability to recognize emotional prosody was not examined.…”

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Associations between vocal emotion recognition and socio-emotional adjustment in children

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The human voice is a primary channel for emotional communication. It is often presumed that being able to recognize vocal emotions is important for everyday socio-emotional functioning, but evidence for this assumption remains scarce. Here, we examined relationships between vocal emotion recognition and socio-emotional adjustment in children. The sample included 141 6- to 8-year-old children, and the emotion tasks required them to categorize five emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, plus neutrality), as conveyed by two types of vocal emotional cues: speech prosody and non-verbal vocalizations such as laughter. Socio-emotional adjustment was evaluated by the children's teachers using a multidimensional questionnaire of self-regulation and social behaviour. Based on frequentist and Bayesian analyses, we found that, for speech prosody, higher emotion recognition related to better general socio-emotional adjustment. This association remained significant even when the children's cognitive ability, age, sex and parental education were held constant. Follow-up analyses indicated that higher emotional prosody recognition was more robustly related to the socio-emotional dimensions of prosocial behaviour and cognitive and behavioural self-regulation. For emotion recognition in non-verbal vocalizations, no associations with socio-emotional adjustment were found. A similar null result was obtained for an additional task focused on facial emotion recognition. Overall, these results support the close link between children's emotional prosody recognition skills and their everyday social behaviour.

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“…This has been interpreted in terms of higher attractiveness eliciting expectations of other positive social qualities even before the interaction has occurred, which, in turn, increases trust in observers (Darai & Grätz, 2012; Davies, Goetz, & Shackelford, 2008; Mulford, Orbell, Shatto, & Stockard, 1998; Wilson & Eckel, 2006). Other studies have shown that displaying positive emotional expressions tends to improve interpersonal outcomes for the displayer while negative emotional expressions lead to poorer outcomes (Caballero & Menez, 2017, 2019; Hauser, Preston, & Stansfield, 2014; Krumhuber et al, 2007; Scharlemann, Eckel, Kacelnik, & Wilson, 2001; Tortosa, Strizhko, Capizzi, & Ruz, 2013, cf. Andrade & Ho, 2007).…”

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“…This allowed to control for other socially relevant information available in face-to-face encounters, such as facial characteristics and ethnicity, which can affect behavior in experimental games (Rezlescu et al, 2012; Todorov, 2008; Tortosa, Lupiáñez, et al, 2013), and therefore to attribute the observed effects to the manipulated variables (accent and confidence). While results of experiments involving repeated interactions (Caballero & Menez, 2017, 2019; Rezlescu et al, 2012; Romano, Balliet, Yamagishi, & Liu, 2017; Tortosa, Lupiáñez, et al, 2013; Tortosa, Strizhko, et al, 2013) often converge with those using one-shot and face-to-face methodologies (Krumhuber et al, 2007; Reed, Zeglen, & Schmidt, 2012), the second approach will be required to test whether result patterns change in one-shot situations.…”

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“…As noted, current knowledge of the interplay of accents and vocally-expressed confidence in the perception of attributes related to trust (i.e., believability) is based on explicit ratings obtained in a nonsocial context . While these data are informative, and appear to draw attention to ways in which accented speakers may be able to overcome disadvantages in social settings, it cannot be assumed that effects on the perception of believability would map directly onto decisions to trust and/or that these patterns would be mirrored in social situations (see Caballero & Menez, 2017, 2019). Empirically testing how the expression of confidence interacts with accent information, and how this information is implicitly used in social interactions, would constitute an important advancement in the literature that better captures the behaviors people experience in everyday life.…”

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Implicit effects of speaker accents and vocally-expressed confidence on decisions to trust.

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People often evaluate speakers with nonstandard accents as being less competent or trustworthy, which is often attributed to in-group favoritism. However, speakers can also modulate social impressions in the listener through their vocal expression (e.g., by speaking in a confident vs. a doubtful tone of voice). Here, we addressed how both accents and vocally-expressed confidence affect social outcomes in an interaction setting using the Trust Game, which operationalizes interpersonal trust using a monetary exchange situation. In a first study, 30 English Canadians interacted with partners speaking English with a Canadian, Australian, or foreign (French) accent. Speakers with each accent vocally expressed themselves in different ways (confident, doubtful, or neutral voice). Results show that trust decisions were significantly modulated by a speaker's accent (fewer tokens were given to foreign-accented speakers) and by vocally-expressed confidence (less tokens were given to doubtful-sounding speakers). Using the same paradigm, a second study then tested whether manipulating the social identity of the speaker-listener led to similar trust decisions in participants who spoke English as a foreign language (EFL; 60 native speakers of French or Spanish). Again, EFL participants trusted partners who spoke in a doubtful manner and those with a foreign accent less, regardless of the participants' linguistic background. Taken together, results suggest that in social-interactive settings, listeners implicitly use different sources of vocal cues to derive social impressions and to guide trust-related decisions, effects not solely driven by shared group membership. The influence of voice information on trust decisions was very similar for native and nonnative listeners.

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“…This could be because distress cues are a powerful tool to elicit care, and being able to 'read' them could promote prosocial behaviours, such as helping a child who is crying (Marsh, 2019). Regarding vocal emotions, decreased cooperative behaviour was observed in adults towards partners displaying emotional prosody of anger, fear and disgust (Caballero & Díaz, 2019). However, this was found in a study focused on decisions to cooperate in a social decision-making paradigm, and participants' ability to recognise emotional prosody was not examined.…”

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Associations Between Vocal Emotion Recognition and Socio-emotional Adjustment in Children

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The human voice is a primary channel for emotional communication. It is often presumed that being able to recognise vocal emotions is important for everyday socio-emotional functioning, but direct empirical evidence for this remains scarce. Here, we examined relationships between vocal emotion recognition and socio-emotional adjustment in children. The sample included 6 to 8-year-old children (N = 141). The emotion tasks required them to categorise five emotions conveyed by nonverbal vocalisations (e.g., laughter, crying) and speech prosody: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, plus neutrality. Socio-emotional adjustment was independently evaluated by the children's teachers using a multi-dimensional questionnaire of self-regulation and social behaviour. Based on frequentist and Bayesian analyses, we found that higher emotion recognition in speech prosody related to better general socio-emotional adjustment. This association remained significant even after accounting for the children's general cognitive ability, age, sex, and parental education in multiple regressions. Follow-up analyses indicated that the advantages were particularly robust for the socio-emotional dimensions prosocial behaviour and cognitive and behavioural self-regulation. For emotion recognition in nonverbal vocalisations, no associations with socio-emotional adjustment were found. Overall, these results support the close link between children's emotional prosody recognition skills and their everyday social behaviour.

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On the role of vocal emotions in social decision-making

Cited by 6 publications

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Associations between vocal emotion recognition and socio-emotional adjustment in children

Associations between vocal emotion recognition and socio-emotional adjustment in children

Implicit effects of speaker accents and vocally-expressed confidence on decisions to trust.

Associations Between Vocal Emotion Recognition and Socio-emotional Adjustment in Children

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