This study examined changes in time perception as a function of depressive symptoms, assessed for each participant with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The participants performed a temporal bisection task in which they had to categorize a signal duration of between 400 and 1600 ms as either as short or long. The data showed that the bisection function was shifted toward the right, and that...

This paper presents a conception of emotion space modeling using psychological research for reference. Based on this conception, this paper studies the distribution of the seven emotions in spoken Chinese, including joy, anger, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and neutral, in the two dimensional space of valence and arousal, and analyses the relationship between the dimensional ratings and the ...

This paper deals with the issue of the influence of verbal content on listeners who have to identify or evaluate speech emotions, and whether or not the emotional aspect of verbal content should be eliminated. We compare the acoustic parameters of sentences expressing joy, anger, sadness and neutrality of two groups: (1) where the verbal content aids the listener in identifying emotions; and (2...

The aim of the research is the phonetic articulatory description of emotive speech achievable studying the labial movements, which are the product of the compliance with both the phonetic-phonological constraints and the lip configuration required for the visual encoding of emotions. In this research we analyse the interaction between labial configurations, peculiar to six emotions (anger, disg...

Three studies examined the relationship between emotions and moral judgment from an interpersonal perspective. In Studies 1 2, participants justified their decisions in sacrificial dilemmas to imagined interlocutor. Linguistic analyses revealed that Don’t Sacrifice justifications contained more anger-related language than sadness-related language, whereas roughly equal proportions of anger sadn...