People try to manage and control their emotions, and even hold back an expression or reappraise feelings. Researchers want to investigate what kind of awareness people have of their own emotional expressions.
A study was conducted using a novel digital audio platform, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), where participants read a short story aloud while hearing their own altered voice, sounding happier, sadder or more fearful, through a headset.
It was found that participants were unaware that their voices were being manipulated, while their emotional state changed in accordance with the manipulated emotion portrayed. This shows that people do not always control their own voice to meet a specific goal.
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