Gender differences and stereotypes in the perception of nonverbal emotional vocalizations
Stereotypes play a significant role in gender cognition and social evaluations.While previous studies on stereotypes have mainly focused on facial and linguistic channels,vocal channels have received less attention.This study aimed to investigate the impact of stereotypes on the perception of nonverbal emo-tional vocalizations.We utilized the Chinese Nonverbal Emotional Vocalizations Corpus as experimental material.Participants were recruited to complete a gender bias forced-choice task and a seven-point fit rating task.A three-way ANOVA was conducted,with the hit rate of gender bias as the dependent variable and listener gender,speaker gender,and emotion category as independent variables.The results demonstrated that nonverbal emotional vocalizations could effectively convey the gender information of the speakers,and these processes are significantly influenced by gender stereotypes of emotions.Specifically,people tend to associate angry sounds with masculinity and fearful and sad sounds with femininity,with this stereotype being more pronounced among male listeners.This study reveals the important role of stereo-types in the perception of nonverbal emotional vocalizations.
stereotypesperception of nonverbal emotional vocalizationsgender differences
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维普
