Kroczek, Leon O. H. and Rosskopf, Sarah and Staerz, Felix and Blau, Matthias and van de Par, Steven and Muehlberger, Andreas (2024) The Influence of Affective Voice on Sound Distance Perception. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 50 (9). pp. 918-933. ISSN 0096-1523, 1939-1277
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Affective stimuli in our environment indicate reward or threat and thereby relate to approach and avoidance behavior. Previous findings suggest that affective stimuli may bias visual perception, but it remains unclear whether similar biases exist in the auditory domain. Therefore, we asked whether affective auditory voices (angry vs. neutral) influence sound distance perception. Two VR experiments (data collection 2021-2022) were conducted in which auditory stimuli were presented via loudspeakers located at positions unknown to the participants. In the first experiment (N = 44), participants actively placed a visually presented virtual agent or virtual loudspeaker in an empty room at the perceived sound source location. In the second experiment (N = 32), participants were standing in front of several virtual agents or virtual loudspeakers and had to indicate the sound source by directing their gaze toward the perceived sound location. Results in both preregistered experiments consistently showed that participants estimated the location of angry voice stimuli at greater distances than the location of neutral voice stimuli. We discuss that neither emotional nor motivational biases can account for these results. Instead, distance estimates seem to rely on listeners' representations regarding the relationship between vocal affect and acoustic characteristics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | VOCAL EXPRESSION; SOCIAL ANXIETY; EMOTION; ATTENTION; INFORMATION; ACTIVATION; INTENSITY; SIGNALS; HUMANS; IMPACT; VR; eye tracking; sound localization; virtual agents; threat processing |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie - Lehrstuhl für Psychologie VIII - Prof. Dr. Andreas Mühlberger |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2025 07:18 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2025 07:18 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/64232 |
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