Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Ooh, surprise! Those spontaneous sounds we make to express everything from elation (woohoo) to embarrassment (oops) say a lot more about what we're feeling than previously understood, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
Proving that a sigh is not just a sigh, UC Berkeley scientists conducted a statistical analysis of listener responses to more than 2,000 nonverbal exclamations known as "vocal bursts" and found they convey at least 24 kinds of emotion. Previous studies of vocal bursts set the number of recognizable emotions closer to 13.
The results, recently published online in the American Psychologist journal, are demonstrated in vivid sound and color on the first-ever interactive audio map of nonverbal vocal communication.
"This study is the most extensive demonstration of our rich emotional vocal repertoire, involving brief signals of upwards of two dozen emotions as intriguing as awe, adoration, interest, sympathy and embarrassment," said study senior author Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, which helped support the research.
[...] "Our findings show that the voice is a much more powerful tool for expressing emotion than previously assumed," said study lead author Alan Cowen, a Ph.D. student in psychology at UC Berkeley.
On Cowen's audio map, one can slide one's cursor across the emotional topography and hover over fear (scream), then surprise (gasp), then awe (woah), realization (ohhh), interest (ah?) and finally confusion (huh?).
Journal Reference:
Alan S. Cowen, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Petri Laukka, Dacher Keltner. Mapping 24 emotions conveyed by brief human vocalization.. American Psychologist, 2018; DOI: 10.1037/amp0000399
That means you can rely on your feelings when you hear your surgeon say "Oops!"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @09:09AM (1 child)
Rich, shocking, interesting, awesome.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 15 2019, @11:09AM
Yay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Touché) by choose another one on Friday February 15 2019, @09:13AM (1 child)
If you can hear your surgeon say "oops" there is a problem with the anaesthetic...
[ Yes I know, local vs. general anaesthetic, but I still wanted to say it.
Last time I was operated on under local the nurse (who couldn't see from where she was) said "don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds", the surgeon said "er, yes it is actually". Oops]
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday February 16 2019, @12:12AM
I still remember being under a nerve block, plus a sedative, rather than under a general, and being operated on. The surgeon...or *someone* handling things during the operation...said "oops". But I was so sedated that it didn't bother me at the time, and afterwards things seem to have been done properly (that's a nearly 30 years ago now).
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Friday February 15 2019, @09:43AM
> when you hear your surgeon say "Oops!"
There's a list where "Oops" is just one of these things you don't want to hear during surgery.
http://allowe.com/laughs/book/Things%20You%20Don't%20Want%20To%20Hear%20During%20Surgery.htm [allowe.com]
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday February 15 2019, @09:57AM
*gasp*
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(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday February 15 2019, @10:27AM
Does it recognize sarcasm? That would go over well.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 15 2019, @03:01PM
Walton & Johnson have a number of different bylines, thrown around like confetti. One of their funnier ones,
Just a few thousand years ago, our ancestors were communicating with primitive grunts.
Seems a few grunts can convey a lot more information than we realized?