Shimai S, Fukuda K, Terasaki M
Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Fukushima Medical College, Japan.
Percept Mot Skills. 1993 Apr;76(2):635-40. doi: 10.2466/pms.1993.76.2.635.
The present experiment examined emotional evaluation of 40 environmental sounds which were presented to 388 college students in a lecture room. Students were required to rate pleasantness-unpleasantness, to identify the sounds, and to rate their confidence about their identifications. Analysis showed that the pleasant sounds were natural and musical sounds and that the unpleasant sounds were sounds of a belch, of a dentist's drill, and of scratching on a blackboard. It is interesting that for pleasant sounds confidence was always high, which suggested that emotional evaluation of the environmental sounds was closely related to the confidence of observers in their identifications of the sounds. Gender differences were noted on the ratings on pleasantness-unpleasantness of environmental sounds, that is, women evaluated the pleasant sounds as more pleasant than men, and men evaluated the unpleasant sounds as not so unpleasant as did women.
本实验对40种环境声音进行了情感评估，这些声音在一个讲堂中播放给388名大学生听。要求学生对声音的愉悦程度进行评分，识别这些声音，并对自己的识别结果给出信心评分。分析表明，愉悦的声音是自然和音乐类声音，而不愉悦的声音是打嗝声、牙医钻头声和黑板擦刮声。有趣的是，对于愉悦的声音，信心评分总是很高，这表明对环境声音的情感评估与观察者对声音识别的信心密切相关。在对环境声音愉悦程度的评分上发现了性别差异，即女性认为愉悦的声音比男性更愉悦，而男性认为不愉悦的声音不像女性认为的那么不愉悦。
