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Transient Voice Changes Associated with Emotional Stimuli
MURRAY ALPERT, M.S.;
RICHARD L. KURTZBERG, M.A.;
ARNOLD J. FRIEDHOFF, M.D.
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1963;8(4):362-365.
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The Latin persona, from which the word "personality" is derived, originally referred to the mouth of a mask used by actors. The word meant "the voice passes through." With time, the concrete emphasis on voice was lost, and the word developed its present abstract sense.3 However, the origin of the word "personality" reflects the intimacy of its relationship with voice. Emotions constitute that aspect of personality which is most immediately related to voice.
The expression of emotion by the voice has been the subject of much experimental investigation. Comprehensive reviews of the work in this area may be found in Sanford,4 Moses,3 and Kramer.2 The methods used for the great majority of these studies employ human judges. This laboratory has used electronic analysis of the voice for the study of the communication of emotion. Although studies based on subjective judgments have been extremely valuable in
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Author Affiliations
NEW YORK
Teaching Assistant in Experimental Psychology (Mr. Alpert); Psychological Research Assistant (Mr. Kurtzberg); Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Research Unit (Dr. Friedhoff).
Recipient of Research Career Development Award No. MSF-14, 024 (Dr. Friedhoff).
Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Neurology, New York University School of Medicine.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 29, 1962.
A portion of this report was presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, August, 1962.
This work was supported by U.S. Public Health Service Grant No. MY-4664, National Institute of Mental Health.
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