Screamology (LOUD VOCALIZATIONS) with Dr. Harold Gouzoules

Image description: Emory University Psychologist, Primatologist and SCREAMOLOGIST Dr. Harold Gouzoules wears a long sleeved blue button up shirt and dark rimmed glasses and smiles lightly at camera while putting on a pair of over the ear headphones. The Ologies logo appears in the lower left corner. Photo via: Emory University.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for… a brand new, screaming hot episode of Ologies. Be warned *slaps the top of this ep* you can fit so many screams in this bad boy. (Seriously though, there’s a lot of screaming in this episode; it’s probably not the one to gently fall asleep to.) What kinds of screams you ask? We got birds, foxes, caterpillars, movie stars, children, James Bond? YES. What is a scream? Is it the same as yelling? How far can you hear a scream? Why do we scream at concerts? What’s up with primal scream therapy? Join us as we hoot and holler with internationally acclaimed Emory professor of psychology Dr. Harold Gouzoules for the answers to these and so many more of your questions as we learn about the study of that most animal of vocalizations: screaming.

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Dr. Gouzoules’s Emory University Bioacoustics Lab

A donation was made to the American Diabetes Association


Links you may enjoy:

A screaming caterpillar

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Which animals scream

Wilhelm Scream list

Basic Wilhelm Scream info

“Study reveals 1933 film King Kong is Loaded with Racism”

“King Kong, the Black Gorilla” by cultural sociologist Juan A. Roche Cárcel

Monkeys scream in dialects

​​1998 study ​​[Screaming during sleep in patients with Parkinson disease]

“Roughness” of a scream

The emotional canvas of human screams: patterns and acoustic cues in the perceptual categorization of a basic call type

Christina Ricci’s dad was a primal scream therapist 

Neurocognitive processing efficiency for discriminating human non-alarm rather than alarm scream calls

 The credibility of acted screams: Implications for emotional communication research

Hitler: loved by white ladies

What is harmony

False cord screaming lesson

Working on Scream was cathartic

The emotional canvas of human screams: patterns and acoustic cues in the perceptual categorization of a basic call type

Sound waves of screams

Screams of ‘joy’ sound like ‘fear’ when heard out of context

Neurocognitive processing efficiency for discriminating human non-alarm rather than alarm scream calls

Loudest scream: Jill Drake

Some basics on Screamology

Profanity can scream

Helter Skelter excerpts 

This guys screams Baby Shark fyi

Gary Numan: goth British I’m Screaming dude

False cord screaming lesson via YouTube

Jill Drake hits 129 db

Decbel levels of different things

Monkeys scream in dialects

Marco Polo game

Red fox at night

Barn owl scream

Caterpillar “screaming”

Stop with the frickin marco polo!:


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Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media

Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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