Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers.

Humans deploy a number of specific behaviours for forming social bonds, one of which is laughter. However, two questions have not yet been investigated with respect to laughter: (1) Does laughter increase the sense of bonding to those with whom we laugh? and (2) Does laughter facilitate prosocial ge...

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Autores principales:	R I M Dunbar, Anna Frangou, Felix Grainger, Eiluned Pearce
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9b101022c96f4abdb42503959b9569792021-12-02T20:18:07ZLaughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0256229https://doaj.org/article/9b101022c96f4abdb42503959b9569792021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256229https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Humans deploy a number of specific behaviours for forming social bonds, one of which is laughter. However, two questions have not yet been investigated with respect to laughter: (1) Does laughter increase the sense of bonding to those with whom we laugh? and (2) Does laughter facilitate prosocial generosity? Using changes in pain threshold as a proxy for endorphin upregulation in the brain and a standard economic game (the Dictator Game) as an assay of prosociality, we show that laughter does trigger the endorphin system and, through that, seems to enhance social bonding, but it does not reliably influence donations to others. This suggests that social bonding and prosociality may operate via different mechanisms, or on different time scales, and relate to different functional objectives.R I M DunbarAnna FrangouFelix GraingerEiluned PearcePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 8, p e0256229 (2021)
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description	Humans deploy a number of specific behaviours for forming social bonds, one of which is laughter. However, two questions have not yet been investigated with respect to laughter: (1) Does laughter increase the sense of bonding to those with whom we laugh? and (2) Does laughter facilitate prosocial generosity? Using changes in pain threshold as a proxy for endorphin upregulation in the brain and a standard economic game (the Dictator Game) as an assay of prosociality, we show that laughter does trigger the endorphin system and, through that, seems to enhance social bonding, but it does not reliably influence donations to others. This suggests that social bonding and prosociality may operate via different mechanisms, or on different time scales, and relate to different functional objectives.
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title_short	Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers.
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title_fullStr	Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers.
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Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers.

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