Our guest today is Professor Silke Paulmann from the University of Essex. Silke explores the way we communicate emotions and attitudes via speech. Silke is also involved in research that attempts to answer how vocal emotions are communicated cross-culturally. Some of her recent work also explores how important psychological variables such as stress, power, and motivation can influence the emotions and the attitudes we communicate through our tone of voice. We spoke with Silke recently about her past and current work, and just how important it is for us to understand that, “it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it." Host: Dr Philip Cozzolino