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Personal evaluations, laughter, and affective judgments.

R Singh, R M Jack

    The Journal of Social Psychology
    |October 1, 1975
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    Receiving personal feedback, especially negative, triggers more laughter. This laughter is linked to improved mood, particularly after negative evaluations, suggesting laughter influences emotional state.

    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Social Psychology
    • Affective Science

    Background:

    • Understanding the relationship between social feedback and emotional responses is crucial.
    • Laughter's role in modulating affective states requires further investigation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To examine the impact of personal versus third-party evaluations on immediate feelings.
    • To investigate the mediating role of spontaneous laughter in response to personality evaluations.
    • To explore the association between laughter and affective state under different evaluation conditions.

    Main Methods:

    • Fifty-six participants received bogus positive or negative personality evaluations from a same-sex peer.
    • A control group (22 subjects) read evaluations of a third person.

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  • Subjects rated their immediate feelings, with laughter as a measured variable.

    • Main Results:

    • Personal evaluations elicited significantly more spontaneous laughter than third-party evaluations (p < .001).
    • Subjects who laughed reported feeling more pleasant (p < .008).
    • Laughter's association with affective state was significant only in the negative evaluation condition (p < .003).

    Conclusions:

    • Extreme affective arousal, particularly from personal evaluations, can engender laughter.
    • Laughter appears to influence the judgment of one's affective state, especially following negative feedback.
    • Findings suggest laughter may serve as a coping mechanism or emotional regulator in response to social evaluation.