Emotional prosody

Emotional prosody or affective prosody is the various paralinguistic aspects of language use that convey emotion. It includes an individual's tone of voice in speech that is conveyed through changes in pitch, loudness, timbre, speech rate, and pauses. It can be isolated from semantic information and interacts with verbal content (e.g., sarcasm).

Emotional prosody in speech is perceived or decoded slightly worse than facial expressions, but accuracy varies with emotions. Anger and sadness are perceived most efficiently, followed by fear and happiness, with disgust being the most poorly perceived.

More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Emotional_prosody ]

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