Laughter Literature Review

1. Social Contagion Theory

1.1. Christakis, N. a, & Fowler, J. H. (2013). Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior. Statistics in medicine, 32(4), 556–77. doi:10.1002/sim.5408

1.2. Chapman, A. J. & Chapman W. (1974). Responsiveness to humor: its dependency upon a companion's humorous smiling and laughter. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 88(2), 245-252. doi: 10.1080/00223980.1974.9915735

1.3. Freedman, J. L., & Perlick, D. (1979). Crowding, contagion, and laughter. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 15(3), 295-303. doi: 10.1016/0022-1031(79)90040-4

1.4. Nosanchuk, T.A., Lightstone, J. (1974). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 29(1), 153-156. doi: 10.1037/h0035737

1.5. Ugander, J., Backstrom, L., Marlow, C., & Kleinberg, J. (2012). Structural diversity in social contagion. PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(16), 5962-5966. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1116502109

1.6. Provine, R. R. (1992). Contagious laughter: Laughter is a sufficient stimulus for laughs and smiles. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society; 30(1), 1-4.

1.7. A little bit of history on social contagion

2. Origin of Laughter

2.1. McComas, H. C. (1923). The Origin of Laughter. Psychological Review, 30(1), 45-55. doi:10.1037/h0073921

2.2. Ross, M. D., Owren, M. J., Zimmermann, E. (2009). Reconstructing the Evolution of Laughter in Great Apes and Humans. Current Biology, 19, 1106-1111

2.3. Hayworth, D. D. (1928). The social origin and function of laughter. Psychological Review, 35(5), 367-384. doi:10.1037/h0073133

3. Holy Grail of Knowledge on Laughter

3.1. Gervais, M., Wilson, D. S. (2005). The Evolution and Functions of Laughter and Humor: A Synthetic Approach. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 80, 395-430.

4. Anatomy of Laughter

4.1. Taber, K. H., Redden, M., Hurley, A. R., (2007). Functional Anatomy of Humor: Positive Affect and Chronic Mental Illness. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 19.

5. Behavioral Ecology

5.1. Mandler, G. (1948) Mind and Body: Psychology of Emotion and Stress. W W Norton & Co Inc

5.2. Fridlund, A. J. (1997). The new ethology of human facial expressions. In J. A. Russell & J. M. Fernandez-Dols (Eds.), The psychology of facial expression. (pp. 103-129). London: Cambridge University Press.

5.3. Kraut R. E., Johnston, R. E. (1979). Social and Emotional Messages of Smiling: An Ethological Approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 1539-1553.

6. Sociality and Emotionality

6.1. Jakobs, E., Manstead, A. S. R., &Fischer, A. H. (1996). Social context and the experience of emotion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 20(2), 123-142. doi: 10.1007/BF02253073

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8. Visual Laughter vs. Auditory Laughter

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