Teija Waaramaa

Ph.D., M.Sc., Docent/Associate Professor, university lecturer. I also work as a senior researcher and lecturer at Tampere University. My expertise areas are vocology and vocal nonverbal communication. My recent research themes are vocal expressions of emotions, voice quality, cross-cultural differences in the perception of emotions from speaking voice, emotion perception by people with hearing impairment, and the profession of news anchors on TV and radio. I have previously worked as a public communicator at Tampere Art Museum and as a research journalist at the national Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle.

Selected publications

Laukkanen A-M, Waaramaa T. (2020). Suomalaisten naisopiskelijoiden luennan perustaajuuden muutos 1990-luvulta 2010-luvulle. Puhe ja kieli, 40(2): 123-134.

Waaramaa T, Lukkarila P, Järvinen K, Geneid A, Laukkanen A-M. (2019). Impressions of personality from intentional voice quality in Arabic-speaking and native Finnish-speaking listeners. Journal of Voice. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2019.09.003. International Listening Associationin (ILA) Research Award 2020.

Waaramaa T, Kukkonen T, Mykkänen S, Geneid A. (2018). Emotion identification by children using cochlear implants, relations to voice quality and musical interests. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 17;61 (4): 973-985. doi:10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-17-0054.

Waaramaa T, Kukkonen T, Stoltz M, Geneid A. (2018). Hearing impairment and emotion identification from auditory and visual stimuli. International Journal of Listening, 32 (3), 150-162. Published online Nov 23rd 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2016.1250633.

Waaramaa T. (2017). Gender differences in identifying emotions from auditory and visual stimuli. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 42, (4). doi: 10.1080/14015439.2016.1243725.

Waaramaa T, Mäki-Kulmala H. (2015). Emosfääri: teoreettinen näkökulma ihmisen tunneviestintään kulttuurisessa kontekstissa. [Emosphere: A theoretical approach to human emotional communication in a cultural context.] Kasvatus ja aika. [Education and time.] 2/2015. Open access publication. http://www.kasvatus-ja-aika.fi/site/?lan=1&page_id=695. (Abstract in English: http://www.kasvatus-ja-aika.fi/site/?lan=1&page_id=703.)

Waaramaa T. (2015). Perception of emotional nonsense sentences in China, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the USA. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 40 (3): 129-35. doi: 10.3109/14015439.2014.915982.

Waaramaa T, Leisiö T. (2013). Perception of emotionally loaded vocal expressions and its connection to responses to music. A cross-cultural investigation: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Russia and the USA. Frontiers in Emotion Science. Open access publication. http://www.frontiersin.org/Emotion_Science/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00344/abstract.

Waaramaa T, Laukkanen A-M, Airas M, Alku P. (2010). Perception of Emotional Valences and Activity Levels from Vowel Segments of Continuous Speech. Journal of Voice 24 (1), 30-38.

Waaramaa T, Alku P, Laukkanen A-M. (2006). The role of F3 in the vocal expression of emotions. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology 31; 4, 153-156).

More publications: https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/persons/teija-waaramaa/publications/