Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies

• Main Authors: Bryant, G. A., Fessler, D. M.T., Fusaroli, R., Clint, E., Aaroe, L., Apicella, C. L., Petersen, M. B., Bickham, S. T., Bolyanatz, A., Chavez, B., De Smet, D., Diaz, C., Fancovicova, J., Fux, M., Giraldo-Perez, P., Hu, Anning, Kamble, S. V., Kameda, T., LI, Norman P., YONG, Jose C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: laughter; cooperation; cross-cultural; signaling; vocalization; Multicultural Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1998; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3255/viewcontent/4682.full.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Laughter is a nonverbal vocal expression that often communicates positive affect and cooperative intent in humans. Temporally coincident laughter occurring within groups is a potentially rich cue of affiliation to overhearers. We examined listeners' judgments of affiliation based on brief, deco...