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This project investigates the role of laughter in social bonding, focusing on how it fosters cooperation and connection from early childhood. By employing a developmental social neuroscience approach, it examines the behavioral and neural mechanisms of laughter in both adults and children.
Humans start laughing very early in their life, in response to tickle, play, or humor.
Laughter is contagious, and seems to play an important role in bonding:
Laughing together makes people feel closer to each other and facilitates cooperation.
However, despite its pervasiveness and significance in human life, a deep understanding of the function of laughter and the mechanisms linking it to bonding, is still lacking.
Being a positively valenced, rhythmic audiovisual social signal, laughter posse…
UNIVERSITAT WIEN
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