Social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold.
Although laughter forms an important part of human non-verbal communication, it has received rather less attention than it deserves in both the experimental and the observational literatures. Relaxed social (Duchenne) laughter is associated with feelings of wellbeing and heightened affect, a proxima...
Main Authors: | Dunbar, R, Baron, R, Frangou, A, Pearce, E, van Leeuwen, E, Stow, J, Partridge, G, MacDonald, I, Barra, V, van Vugt, M |
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Format: | Journal article |
Sprog: | English |
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2012
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