Emotional expression is crucial for social interaction. Yet researchers disagree about whether nonverbal expressions truly reflect felt emotions and whether they convey discrete emotions to perceivers in everyday life. In the present study, 384 clips of vocal expression recorded in a field setting were rated by the speakers themselves and by naïve listeners with regard to their emotional contents. Results suggested that most expressions in everyday life are reflective of felt emotions in speakers. Seventy-three percent of the voice clips involved moderate to high emotion intensity. Speaker-listener agreement concerning expressed emotions was 5 times higher than would be expected from chance alone, and agreement was significantly higher for voice clips with high emotion intensity than for clips with low intensity. Acoustic analysis of the clips revealed emotion-specific patterns of voice cues. "Mixed emotions" occurred in 41% of the clips. Such expressions were typically interpreted by listeners as conveying one or the other of the two felt emotions. Mixed emotions were rarely recognized as such. The results are discussed regarding their implications for the domain of emotional expression in general, and vocal expression in particular. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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日常生活中的自发性声音表达将离散的情感传达给听众。

情感表达对于社交互动至关重要。然而，研究人员不同意非语言表达是否真正反映了情感，以及它们是否将离散情感传达给日常生活中的感知者。在本研究中，在场环境中录制的384个声音表达片段由说话者自己和幼稚的听众对他们的情感内容进行了评分。结果表明，日常生活中的大多数表达都反映了说话者的情绪。百分之七十三的语音片段涉及中等到高的情绪强度。与表达情绪有关的说话者与听者的同意比仅凭偶然机会预期的要高5倍，并且情绪强度高的语音剪辑的同意显着高于情绪强度低的剪辑。剪辑的声学分析显示了语音提示的特定于情绪的模式。41％的剪辑出现“混合情绪”。这种表达通常被听众解释为传达两种感觉到的情感中的一种或另一种。很少有人这样混合情绪。讨论了有关结果对情绪表达领域的影响，尤其是对声音表达的影响。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。讨论了有关结果对情绪表达领域的影响，尤其是对声音表达的影响。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。讨论了有关结果对情绪表达领域的影响，尤其是对声音表达的影响。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。