Influence of Pitch Height on the Perception of Submissiveness and Threat in Musical Passages

Bolinger, Ohala, Morton and others have established that vocal pitch height is perceived to be associated with social signals of dominance and submissiveness: higher vocal pitch is associated with submissiveness, whereas lower vocal pitch is associated with social dominance. An experiment was carrie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David Huron, Daryl Kinney, Kristin Precoda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2006-09-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/24068