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In a recent article in the American Psychologist:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-gasp-audio-oohs-aahs-uh-ohs.html
Researchers have mapped out 24 different emotions expressed as Oohs and Ahhs and related spontaneous sounds:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-gasp-audio-oohs-aahs-uh-ohs.html
Researchers have mapped out 24 different emotions expressed as Oohs and Ahhs and related spontaneous sounds:
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 UC Berkeley research.Proving that a sigh is not just a sigh, 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.