ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022
Laughter and culture.
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- Laughter as a Subject and a Tool for Interdisciplinary Investigations in Philosophy and Neuroscience.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Self-initiated humour protocol: a pilot study with an AI agent.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Humans need auditory experience to produce typical volitional nonverbal vocalizations.Communications psychology · 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
- Recognition of emotions in German laughter across cultures.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Cracking the laugh code: laughter through the lens of biology, psychology and neuroscience.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Like most human non-verbal vocalizations, laughter is produced by speakers of all languages, across all known societies. But despite this obvious fact (or perhaps because of it), there is little comparative research examining the structural and functional similarity of laughter across speakers from different cultures. Here, we describe existing research examining (i) the perception of laughter across disparate cultures, (ii) conversation analysis examining how laughter manifests itself during discourse across different languages, and (iii) computational methods developed for automatically detecting laughter in spoken language databases. Together, these three areas of investigation provide clues regarding universals and cultural variations in laughter production and perception, and offer methodological tools that can be useful for future large-scale cross-cultural studies. We conclude by providing suggestions for areas of research and predictions of what we should expect to discover. Overall, we highlight how important questions regarding human vocal communication across cultures can be addressed through the examination of spontaneous and volitional laughter. This article is part of the theme issue 'Cracking the laugh code: laughter through the lens of biology, psychology and neuroscience'.
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