The Role of Contextual Information in Classifying Spontaneous Social Laughter.
Laughter is a ubiquitous and important social signal, but its nature is yet to be fully explored. One of the open empirical questions is about the role of context in the interpretation of laughter. Can laughs presented on their own convey specific feelings and social motives? How influential is soci...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 449 - 467 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2022
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