Do Macaws get upset when people argue?

One time when my mother and brother got into a verbal fight, my brothers' macaw started making these bizarre grunt-like noises. As the fight intensified, he started screaming, and it wasn't the normal scream he uses to get attention, but rather an alarm like scream. I took him out, put him on my shoulder and took him into my room to try to calm him down. Once there, he cuddled up close to my face and made these whining voices.

I know animal behavioral psychology is a tricky topic to approach because you can't anthropomorphize other animals and assign the same emotional patterns present in humans to them, but at the same time you can't write them off as robots. That's why I was wondering whether these were signs he was made upset by the argument .