Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers.
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
24
03
2021
accepted:
03
08
2021
entrez:
13
8
2021
pubmed:
14
8
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34388212
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256229
pii: PONE-D-21-08705
pmc: PMC8362988
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0256229Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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