Trial reportHuman nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)2015
Laughter's influence on the intimacy of self-disclosure.
Trial report in Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Real Time Monitoring of Engagement with a Text Message Intervention to Reduce Binge Drinking Among Men Living in Socially Disadvantaged Areas of Scotland.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Trial
- Autistic adults perceive and experience laughter differently to non-autistic adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Mapping the differential impact of spontaneous and conversational laughter on brain and mind: an fMRI study in autism.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Charting the development of emotion comprehension and abstraction from childhood to adulthood using observer-rated and linguistic measures.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2020Article
- The Effects of Laughter Therapy for the Relief of Employment-Stress in Korean Student Nurses by Assessing Psychological Stress Salivary Cortisol and Subjective Happiness.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2020Article
- No laughing matter: Latinas' high quality of conversations relate to behavioral laughter.PloS one · 2019Article
- Towards a social functional account of laughter: Acoustic features convey reward, affiliation, and dominance.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
If laughter functions to build relationships between individuals, as current theory suggests, laughter should be linked to interpersonal behaviors that have been shown to be critical to relationship development. Given the importance of disclosing behaviors in facilitating the development of intense social bonds, it is possible that the act of laughing may temporarily influence the laugher's willingness to disclose personal information. We tested this hypothesis experimentally by comparing the characteristics of self-disclosing statements produced by those who had previously watched one of three video clips that differed in the extent to which they elicited laughter and positive affect. The results show that disclosure intimacy is significantly higher after laughter than in the control condition, suggesting that this effect may be due, at least in part, to laughter itself and not simply to a change in positive affect. However, the disclosure intimacy effect was only found for observers' ratings of participants' disclosures and was absent in the participants' own ratings. We suggest that laughter increases people's willingness to disclose, but that they may not necessarily be aware that it is doing so.
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