Screaming Is a Non Verbal Vocal Expression

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Why does screaming sometimes feel so good or relieve pain, or feel like an outlet? It does. Why do we like to be scared? Again, this we can speculate. I think that screaming has been so important in the evolutionary past that, in essence, practising is something that is advantageous and our brains treat it as rewarding. Young girls tend to do this more often, again, but they'll scream, and they scream in a competitive way. One screams, the other screams, who screams louder, who screams longer? Little kids will do that. And i think what it does is expose the people that you're close to, your friends, your relatives, to the particular reditions

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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