Towards a social functional account of laughter: Acoustic features convey reward, affiliation, and dominance.

Recent work has identified the physical features of smiles that accomplish three tasks fundamental to human social living: rewarding behavior, establishing and managing affiliative bonds, and negotiating social status. The current work extends the social functional account to laughter. Participants...

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Main Authors: Adrienne Wood, Jared Martin, Paula Niedenthal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5574543?pdf=render

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