Social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1731, 2012, Pages 1161-1167

  Dunbar, R I M ^a   Baron, Rebecca ^b   Frangou, Anna ^a   Pearce, Eiluned ^a   van Leeuwen, Edwin J C ^a   Stow, Julie ^d   Partridge, Giselle ^d   Macdonald, Ian ^e   Barra, Vincent ^d   van Vugt, Mark ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAGDALEN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endorphins; Laughter; Pain threshold; Positive affect; Social bonding

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PEPTIDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THRESHOLD; TOLERANCE;

EID: 84856792558     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1373     Document Type: Article

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