Does loneliness impact the way youth interpret vocal emotions?

Does loneliness impact the way youth interpret vocal emotions? Given that loneliness tends to increase 📈 during puberty, this is an especially important question to ask in youth. In this post, research assistant Sophie Ye breaks down a research study 📝 which looked to answer this question!

Before swiping through the slides, do you believe youth with greater loneliness were better at recognizing friendliness 🙂 or meanness 😡? Comment below to share your answer! 🙋

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Psychology terms made easy: prosody

Welcome to another installment of our Psychology Terms Made Easy series! In this post, we will be breaking down the concept of prosody 🔊! Can you think of a time when your friend told you they were “fine”, but the features of their voice (such as the pitch, intensity level and rhythm) told you otherwise? Together, these features were helping you understand how your friend really felt!

Not only can researchers investigate how well people identify emotional states through prosody, but they can also study how we use prosody to express ourselves… such as in our EXPRESS-1 Study 😄!

Special thanks to our research assistant Jake Hartwig-Macdonald for helping us deconstruct the concept of prosody!!

#psychology #prosody #science #scicomm #emotion #PTME