Silke Paulmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1719525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silke Paulmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silke |
| FAMILY NAME | Paulmann |
| SIGNATURE | PAULMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4148-3806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Makes Parents Sound Controlling? Exploring Individual Differences in Autonomy Support, Psychological Control, Authoritarianism, and Stress
SYNOPSISObjective. When parents communicate with their children, their tone of voice plays a vital role in shaping their children’s emotional and motivational reactions. Understanding why some parents use their voice differently from others, whether due to stable individual traits or situational factors, can provide insights into how parenting practices are expressed and how they affect children. This study investigates how individual differences…
Limits of variability in bilingual language processing
Previous research has highlighted that supplementing standard group-level event-related potential analyses with assessments of individual variation can enhance our understanding of language-related brain activity. The present study pursues this approach by examining bilingual speakers’ brain responses to morphologically complex word forms in both their native (German, L1) and their second language (English, L2). We tested 108 bilingual speakers u…
Do empathic people respond differently to emotional voices
Past research on the use of motivational voice (or motivational prosody) has found that the way we modulate acoustic cues when we speak can have profound effects on others. However, it is unclear whether the effects also hold for other forms of social communication, such as emotional tone of voice, and what role empathy plays. Across three experiments (two preregistered), we found very large effects indicating that listening to an angry vs. happy…
Motivating tones to enhance education
BACKGROUND: Effective classroom communication is key to shaping the learning environment and inspiring student engagement. And, it's not just what is said, but how it's said, that influences students. Yet, few (current or future) teachers receive education on vocal pedagogy. AIMS: This study examined the impact of raising vocal awareness in teachers on their voice production through delivering a voice training program. METHOD: Specifically, we ex…
Perceived prolonged stress leads to difficulties in recognizing sadness from voice cues in men but not women
It has long been known that stress has detrimental effects on cognition (e.g., Alderson & Novack, 2002; Lupien & Lepage, 2001), most notably documented for memory functions (e.g., Schwabe & Wolf, 2013). Interestingly, less is known about the effects of stress on other cognitive functions including language processing. Here, we have examined the effects of self-reported prolonged stress on recognition of emotional language content with a particula…
Teachers' motivational prosody
BackgroundTeachers' behaviours drive motivational climates that shape children's engagement and well-being in the classroom, but few studies examine how specific teachers' behaviours such as wording, body language, or voice contribute to these outcomes in isolation of one another.AimsThis pre-registered experiment sought to examine the often-forgotten role that teachers' tone of voice plays in children's education. Informed by the theoretical fra…
Don't you say it that way! Experimental evidence that controlling voices elicit defiance
Listen to your mother
Virtually nothing is known about the role that tone of voice may play in motivating interactions. Herein, we use an experimental approach to explore for the first time how the same directive instructions ("Do well at the play") have different effects on adolescents depending on the motivational tone of voice used to convey these instructions. A sample of 1,000 adolescents aged 14-15 years was randomly assigned to hearing semantically identical me…
Social power and recognition of emotional prosody
Listeners have to pay close attention to a speaker's tone of voice (prosody) during daily conversations. This is particularly important when trying to infer the emotional state of the speaker. Although a growing body of research has explored how emotions are processed from speech in general, little is known about how psychosocial factors such as social power can shape the perception of vocal emotional attributes. Thus, the present studies explore…
Emotion, Language, and the Brain
In social interactions, humans can express how they feel inwhat(verbal) they say andhow(non-verbal) they say it. Although decoding of vocal emotion expressions occurs rapidly, accumulating electrophysiological evidence suggests that this process is multilayered and involves temporally and functionally distinct processing steps. Neuroimaging and lesion data confirm that these processing steps, which support emotional speech and language comprehens…
Factors in the recognition of vocally expressed emotions
Factors in the recognition of vocally expressed emotions
Don't you say it that way! Experimental evidence that controlling voices elicit defiance
Listen to your mother
Virtually nothing is known about the role that tone of voice may play in motivating interactions. Herein, we use an experimental approach to explore for the first time how the same directive instructions ("Do well at the play") have different effects on adolescents depending on the motivational tone of voice used to convey these instructions. A sample of 1,000 adolescents aged 14-15 years was randomly assigned to hearing semantically identical me…
Emotion, Language, and the Brain
In social interactions, humans can express how they feel inwhat(verbal) they say andhow(non-verbal) they say it. Although decoding of vocal emotion expressions occurs rapidly, accumulating electrophysiological evidence suggests that this process is multilayered and involves temporally and functionally distinct processing steps. Neuroimaging and lesion data confirm that these processing steps, which support emotional speech and language comprehens…
Teachers' motivational prosody
BackgroundTeachers' behaviours drive motivational climates that shape children's engagement and well-being in the classroom, but few studies examine how specific teachers' behaviours such as wording, body language, or voice contribute to these outcomes in isolation of one another.AimsThis pre-registered experiment sought to examine the often-forgotten role that teachers' tone of voice plays in children's education. Informed by the theoretical fra…
Factors in the recognition of vocally expressed emotions
Emotion, Language, and the Brain
In social interactions, humans can express how they feel inwhat(verbal) they say andhow(non-verbal) they say it. Although decoding of vocal emotion expressions occurs rapidly, accumulating electrophysiological evidence suggests that this process is multilayered and involves temporally and functionally distinct processing steps. Neuroimaging and lesion data confirm that these processing steps, which support emotional speech and language comprehens…
Social power and recognition of emotional prosody
Listeners have to pay close attention to a speaker's tone of voice (prosody) during daily conversations. This is particularly important when trying to infer the emotional state of the speaker. Although a growing body of research has explored how emotions are processed from speech in general, little is known about how psychosocial factors such as social power can shape the perception of vocal emotional attributes. Thus, the present studies explore…
Listen to your mother
Virtually nothing is known about the role that tone of voice may play in motivating interactions. Herein, we use an experimental approach to explore for the first time how the same directive instructions ("Do well at the play") have different effects on adolescents depending on the motivational tone of voice used to convey these instructions. A sample of 1,000 adolescents aged 14-15 years was randomly assigned to hearing semantically identical me…
Don't you say it that way! Experimental evidence that controlling voices elicit defiance
Teachers' motivational prosody
BackgroundTeachers' behaviours drive motivational climates that shape children's engagement and well-being in the classroom, but few studies examine how specific teachers' behaviours such as wording, body language, or voice contribute to these outcomes in isolation of one another.AimsThis pre-registered experiment sought to examine the often-forgotten role that teachers' tone of voice plays in children's education. Informed by the theoretical fra…
Perceived prolonged stress leads to difficulties in recognizing sadness from voice cues in men but not women
It has long been known that stress has detrimental effects on cognition (e.g., Alderson & Novack, 2002; Lupien & Lepage, 2001), most notably documented for memory functions (e.g., Schwabe & Wolf, 2013). Interestingly, less is known about the effects of stress on other cognitive functions including language processing. Here, we have examined the effects of self-reported prolonged stress on recognition of emotional language content with a particula…
Do empathic people respond differently to emotional voices
Past research on the use of motivational voice (or motivational prosody) has found that the way we modulate acoustic cues when we speak can have profound effects on others. However, it is unclear whether the effects also hold for other forms of social communication, such as emotional tone of voice, and what role empathy plays. Across three experiments (two preregistered), we found very large effects indicating that listening to an angry vs. happy…
Motivating tones to enhance education
BACKGROUND: Effective classroom communication is key to shaping the learning environment and inspiring student engagement. And, it's not just what is said, but how it's said, that influences students. Yet, few (current or future) teachers receive education on vocal pedagogy. AIMS: This study examined the impact of raising vocal awareness in teachers on their voice production through delivering a voice training program. METHOD: Specifically, we ex…
What Makes Parents Sound Controlling? Exploring Individual Differences in Autonomy Support, Psychological Control, Authoritarianism, and Stress
SYNOPSISObjective. When parents communicate with their children, their tone of voice plays a vital role in shaping their children’s emotional and motivational reactions. Understanding why some parents use their voice differently from others, whether due to stable individual traits or situational factors, can provide insights into how parenting practices are expressed and how they affect children. This study investigates how individual differences…
Limits of variability in bilingual language processing
Previous research has highlighted that supplementing standard group-level event-related potential analyses with assessments of individual variation can enhance our understanding of language-related brain activity. The present study pursues this approach by examining bilingual speakers’ brain responses to morphologically complex word forms in both their native (German, L1) and their second language (English, L2). We tested 108 bilingual speakers u…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Autonomy (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Tone (literature (3 works)