Abstract
Previous research suggests that young normal-hearing and older hearing-impaired adult listeners judge clear speech as sounding angry more often than conversational speech. Interestingly, older hearing-impaired listeners were less likely than young normal-hearing listeners to judge sentences as angry in both speaking styles. It was unknown, however, whether this difference in ratings of emotion were driven by the age or hearing status differences between the two groups. A secondary investigation showed that young adult listeners with a simulated hearing loss that matched the older hearing-impaired group rated emotions nearly identically to the young normal-hearing group, suggesting no effect of hearing loss on ratings of emotion. The simulated hearing loss failed to account for other auditory factors or psychological processes associated with aging that may have account for the group differences. The present study carried out the same emotional rating task using clear and conversational speech sentences (a...
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