ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
Age, empathy, familiarity, domestication and call features enhance human perception of animal emotion expressions.
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- Machine learning algorithms can predict emotional valence across ungulate vocalizations.iScience · 2025Article
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- Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Article
- Humans can identify reward-related call types of chickens.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Humans recognize affective cues in primate vocalizations: acoustic and phylogenetic perspectives.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Age, empathy, familiarity, domestication and call features enhance human perception of animal emotion expressions.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Vocalizations constitute an effective way to communicate both emotional arousal (bodily activation) and valence (negative/positive). There is strong evidence suggesting that the convergence of vocal expression of emotional arousal among animal species occurs, hence enabling cross-species perception of arousal, but it is not clear if the same is true for emotional valence. Here, we conducted a large online survey to test the ability of humans to perceive emotions in the contact calls of several wild and domestic ungulates produced in situations of known emotional arousal (previously validated using either heart rate or locomotion) and valence (validated based on the context of production and behavioural indicators of emotions). Participants (1024 respondents from 48 countries) were able to rate above chance levels the arousal level of vocalizations of three of the six ungulate species and the valence of four of them. Percentages of correct ratings did not differ a lot across species for arousal (49-59%), while they showed much more variation for valence (33-68%). Interestingly, several factors such as age, empathy, familiarity and specific features of the calls enhanced these scores. These findings suggest the existence of a shared emotional system across mammalian species, which is much more pronounced for arousal than valence.
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