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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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Are You Affected by Tone of Voice?

People really are affected by tone of voice. People do have slower responses to the angry prosody and even slower responses when they actually thought the computer was kind of angry at them. But also, I feel kind of validated by this study because I think you do have an emotional reaction when someone says something to you in an angry tone of voice that it's nice to know that other people are also feeling that. And for that to affect your ability to respond to things.

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