On 6th of April, AICE researcher Roza Kamiloglu defended her PhD dissertation titled “Positive Emotions in the Voice: Towards an Ethological Understanding”. Her supervisors were Disa Sauter and Agneta Fischer.

Imagine the palette of experiences of positive emotions in life: we are amused by a hilarious joke, stand in awe of a majestic mountain, erupt with triumph when our favourite team wins the championship, and so on and on and on. Do we sound differently in such situations? For instance, we might produce a wide range of vocal expressions like laughs, moans, screams, grunts etc. Roza studied the nonverbal communication of positive emotions, with a specific focus on vocal expressions, in her PhD project. Her work revealed communication of a wide range of positive emotions via vocal expressions, highlighted challenges with studying emotions in the voice, and proposed a new framework for establishing valid ways to examine vocal behaviour. Her work emphasises the complexity and diversity of vocal expressions of emotions.

You can access Roza’s dissertation from here.

Roza is now based at VU Amsterdam, where she will continue to study emotion expression and experience, working together with prof. Josh Tybur.

Congratulations Roza!