The perception of spontaneous and volitional laughter across 21 societies

• Main Authors: BRYAN, Gregory A., FESSLER, Daniel M., FUSAROLI, Riccardo, CLINT, Edward, AMIR, Dorsa, CHAVEZ, Brenda, DENTON, Kaleda K., DIAZ, Cinthya, DURAN, Lealaiailoto T., FANCOVICOVA, Jana, FUX, Michal, GINTING, Erni F., HASAN, Youssef, HU, Anning, KAMBLE, Shanmukh V., KAMEDA, Tatsuya, KURODA, Kiri, LI, Norman P., al, et
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: laughter; vocal communication; cross-cultural; emotion; speech; open data; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Multicultural Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2799; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4056/viewcontent/The_Perception_of_Spontaneous_and_Volitional_Laughter_Across_21_Societies.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Laughter is a nonverbal vocalization occurring in every known culture, ubiquitous across all forms of human socialinteraction. Here, we examined whether listeners around the world, irrespective of their own native language andculture, can distinguish between spontaneous laughter and volitional laugh...