The sound of the crowd: Auditory information modulates the perceived emotion of a crowd based on bodily expressions.

McHugh, Joanna E., Kearney, Gavin, Rice, Henry and Newell, Fiona N. (2012) The sound of the crowd: Auditory information modulates the perceived emotion of a crowd based on bodily expressions. Emotion, 12 (1). pp. 120-131. ISSN 1931-1516

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Abstract

Although both auditory and visual information can influence the perceived emotion of an individual, how these modalities contribute to the perceived emotion of a crowd of characters was hitherto unknown. Here, we manipulated the ambiguity of the emotion of either a visual or auditory crowd of characters by varying the proportions of characters expressing one of two emotional states. Using an intersensory bias paradigm, unambiguous emotional information from an unattended modality was presented while participants determined the emotion of a crowd in an attended, but different, modality. We found that emotional information in an unattended modality can disambiguate the perceived emotion of a crowd. Moreover, the size of the crowd had little effect on these crossmodal influences. The role of audiovisual information appears to be similar in perceiving emotion from individuals or crowds. Our findings provide novel insights into the role of multisensory influences on the perception of social information from crowds of individuals.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology
Divisions:	School of Business > Staff Research and Publications
Depositing User:	Caoimhe Ní Mhaicín
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2015 10:53
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2017 13:12
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/1992

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