Rate My Professor Harold Gouzoules

His academic interests center on primate social behavior and communication, primate vocal communication, recruitment of support in agonistic interactions, and the evolution and ethology of screams in human and nonhuman primates. Notable publications include Engelberg, J. W., Schwartz, J. W., & Gouzoules, H. (2021). The emotional canvas of human screams: patterns and acoustic cues in the perceptual categorization of a basic call type. PeerJ, 9, e10990; Schwartz, J. W., Engelberg, J. W. M., & Gouzoules, H. (2020). Evolving views on cognition in animal vocal communication: Contributions from scream research. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 7(2), 192-213; Schwartz, J. W., Engelberg, J. W., & Gouzoules, H. (2020). Was That a Scream? Listener Agreement and Major Distinguishing Acoustic Features. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 44, 233–252; Engelberg, J. W. M., & Gouzoules, H. (2019). The credibility of acted screams: implications for emotional communication research. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 1889-1902; and Fugate, J. M. B., Gouzoules, H., & Nygaard, L. C. (2008). Recognition of rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) noisy screams: evidence from nonspecific and human listeners. American Journal of Primatology, 70, 594-604. Gouzoules authors the Psychology Today blog “Our Natural History” and has appeared in media such as NPR's Science Friday and BBC's The Guardian discussing his scream research.