Greg Bryant
Greg Bryant
Professor and Chair
Office: 2331 Rolfe Hall
Email: gabryant@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5984
Biography
I am a cognitive scientist who studies communication and cognition from an evolutionary perspective. My graduate training is in experimental psycholinguistics at UC Santa Cruz, and I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. My research incorporates concepts and methods from cognitive psychology, speech science, anthropology, and behavioral biology. In my lab we do acoustic analyses of vocalizations, perception and psychophysiology experiments, and design cross-cultural field studies.
Education
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.S., Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A., Psychology, San Francisco State University
Selected Publications
Bryant, G. A., & Dale, R. (2024). Language, communication, and social cognition. In D. Carlston, K. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.). The Oxford handbook of social cognition (pp. 884-900). Oxford University Press.
Anikin, A., Valente, D., Pisanski, K., Cornec, C., Bryant, G. A., & Reby, D. (2024). The role of loudness in vocal intimidation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(2), 511-530.
Bryant, G. A., & Bainbridge, C. M. (2022). Laughter and culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20210179.
Mehr, S., Krasnow, M., Bryant, G. A., & Hagen, E. H. (2021). Origins of music in credible signaling. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E60.
Bryant, G. A. (2021). Vocal communication across cultures: Theoretical and methodological issues. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20200387.
Bryant, G. A., Wang, C. S., & Fusaroli, R. (2020). Recognizing affiliation in colaughter and cospeech. Royal Society Open Science, 7(10), 201092.
Bryant, G. A. (2020). The evolution of human vocal emotion. Emotion Review. 1754073920930791.
Vouloumanos, A., & Bryant, G. A. (2019). Five-month old infants detect affiliation in colaughter. Scientific Reports, 9, 4158.
Bryant, G. A., Fessler, D. M. T., Fusaroli, R., et al. (2018). The perception of spontaneous and volitional laughter across 21 societies. Psychological Science, 29(9), 1515-1525.
Broesch, T., & Bryant, G. A. (2018). Fathers’ infant‐directed speech in a small‐scale society. Child Development, 89(2), e29-e41.
Pietraszewski, D., Wertz, A., Bryant, G. A., & Wynn, K. (2017). Three-month-old human infants use vocal cues of body size. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1856), 20170656.
Bryant, G. A., Fessler, D. M. T., Fusaroli, R., et al. (2016). Detecting affiliation in co-laughter across 24 societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(17), 4682-4687.
Bryant, G. A., & Aktipis, C. A. (2014). The animal nature of spontaneous human laughter. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(4), 327-335.
Manson, J. E., Bryant, G. A., Gervais, M., & Kline, M. (2013). Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(6), 419-426.
Bryant, G. A. (2013). Animal signals and emotion in music: Coordinating affect across groups. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 990, 1-13.
Blumstein, D., Bryant, G. A., & Kaye, P. (2012). The sound of arousal in music is context dependent. Biology Letters, 8, 744-747.
Bryant, G. A., & Haselton, M. G. (2009). Vocal cues of ovulation in human females. Biology Letters, 5(1), 12-15.
Gibbs, R. W., & Bryant, G. A. (2008). Striving for optimal relevance when answering questions. Cognition, 106(1), 345-369.
Bryant, G. A., & Barrett, H. C. (2007). Recognizing intentions in infant directed speech: Evidence for universals. Psychological Science, 18(8), 746-751.
