▲ Universal Emotions:
First Faces, Now Sounds ▼

From the Science Daily:

In an attempt to find out if certain emotions are universal, researchers led by Professor Sophie Scott from UCL (University College London) have studied whether the sounds associated with emotions such as happiness, anger, fear, sadness, disgust and surprise are shared amongst different cultures...

"People from both groups [in the study] seemed to find the basic emotions -- anger, fear, disgust, amusement, sadness and surprise -- the most easily recognisable," says Professor Scott, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. "This suggests that these emotions -- and their vocalisations -- are similar across all human cultures."

The findings support previous research which showed that facial expressions of these basic emotions are recognised across a wide range of cultures...