Screamologists - How Has Your Research Changed Over 37 Years?

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The cores of screamologists job is to figure out if humans can distinguish screams in different contexts, and to know just what the hell is up. And one of the ways that we've done that is to collect a huge catalogue of screams. So we've got literally a scream library, oh my god, that has been harvested from the internet,. Because everybody posts their entire life history on the internete these days. There are many examples of naturally occurring, real screams that we can use in the research. Then, of course, there's the opportunity to take screams from t v shows or movies, and those acted renditions of screams.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for… a brand new, screaming hot episode of Ologies. Be warned *slaps the top of this ep* you can fit so many screams in this bad boy. (Seriously though, there’s a lot of screaming in this episode, it’s probably not the one to gently fall asleep to.) What kinds of screams you ask? We got birds, foxes, caterpillars, movie stars, children, James Bond? YES. What is a scream? Is it the same as yelling? How far can you hear a scream? Why do we scream at concerts? What’s up with primal scream therapy? Join us as we hoot and holler with internationally acclaimed Emory professor of psychology Dr. Harold Gouzoules for the answers to these and so many more of your questions as we learn about the study of that most animal of vocalizations: screaming.

Dr. Gouzoules’s Emory University Bioacoustics Lab

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