TY - JOUR
PY - 2018//
TI - The perception of spontaneous and volitional laughter across 21 societies
JO - Psychological science
A1 - Bryant, Gregory A.
A1 - Fessler, Daniel M. T.
A1 - Fusaroli, Riccardo
A1 - Clint, Edward
A1 - Amir, Dorsa
A1 - Chávez, Brenda
A1 - Denton, Kaleda K.
A1 - Díaz, Cinthya
A1 - Duran, Lealaiauloto Togiaso
A1 - Fanćovićová, Jana
A1 - Fux, Michal
A1 - Ginting, Erni Farida
A1 - Hasan, Youssef
A1 - Hu, Anning
A1 - Kamble, Shanmukh V.
A1 - Kameda, Tatsuya
A1 - Kuroda, Kiri
A1 - Li, Norman P.
A1 - Luberti, Francesca R.
A1 - Peyravi, Raha
A1 - Prokop, Pavol
A1 - Quintelier, Katinka J. P.
A1 - Shin, Hyun Jung
A1 - Stieger, Stefan
A1 - Sugiyama, Lawrence S.
A1 - van den Hende, Ellis A.
A1 - Viciana-Asensio, Hugo
A1 - Yildizhan, Saliha Elif
A1 - Yong, Jose C.
A1 - Yuditha, Tessa
A1 - Zhou, Yi
SP - 1515
EP - 1525
VL - 29
IS - 9
N2 - Laughter is a nonverbal vocalization occurring in every known culture, ubiquitous across all forms of human social interaction. Here, we examined whether listeners around the world, irrespective of their own native language and culture, can distinguish between spontaneous laughter and volitional laughter-laugh types likely generated by different vocal-production systems. Using a set of 36 recorded laughs produced by female English speakers in tests involving 884 participants from 21 societies across six regions of the world, we asked listeners to determine whether each laugh was real or fake, and listeners differentiated between the two laugh types with an accuracy of 56% to 69%. Acoustic analysis revealed that sound features associated with arousal in vocal production predicted listeners' judgments fairly uniformly across societies. These results demonstrate high consistency across cultures in laughter judgments, underscoring the potential importance of nonverbal vocal communicative phenomena in human affiliation and cooperation. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 0956-7976
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797618778235
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