I'm Learning to Scream

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Humans will scream in fear, pain, aggression, frustration and excitement. But is it just hard wired in our jiggly, goopy, complex brains? I don't think you have to learn to scream. It's a natural part of the vocal output that very young babies produce. Any new parents out there, maybe you're up nursing efori am or whatever, just think of your baby as emitting vocal output, not screaming. Maybe that'll help you not want to stuff it back into your womb for another year.

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

A donation was made to American Diabetes Association