Laughing, Grooming, and Pub Science

Overview

Journal Trends Cogn Sci

Date 2012 Nov 22

PMID 23168210

Citations 8

Authors

Robert R Provine

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Abstract

On the basis of naturalistic observations of people conversing and laughing in pubs, a new study suggests that the 'grooming-at-a-distance' of laughter provides a three-fold increase in grooming group size, potentially explaining how hominins evolved social groups that are considerably larger than those of other primates.

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