Sharing the joke: The size of natural laughter groups

By Guillaume Dezecache, Robin I. M. Dunbar. 2012

117 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e4f9306ecc67d849a36f7d91fb3844104eb4704b

How researchers see this paper

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. A. P. Mcgraw
2. Robin I. M. Dunbar
3. A. Barsky
4. Caleb Warren

In Social Psychology

1. A. P. Mcgraw
2. Robin I. M. Dunbar
3. A. Barsky
4. Caleb Warren
5. Ruth Feldman
6. T. Scott-Phillips
7. Dunbar Rim.
8. C. Barelli

Citations in the corpus

• Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks? (2016, background): “We can only interact coherently with a very small number of other people (about three, in fact) at any one time [40,41].”
• The Neurobiology of Social Distance (2020, unknown): “These joint activities include laughing [167,168], singing [169,170], dancing [171,172], feasting [22], and emo-”
• Humor, Comedy, and Consumer Behavior (2018, background): “Laughter similarly helps adult humans bond by enabling communication in larger group sizes (Dezecache and Dunbar 2012) and reassuring reciprocal support, especially in the face of novel or potentially threatening situations (Shiota et al. 2004).”