Laughter conveys status

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2016, Pages 109-115

  Oveis, Christopher ^a   Spectre, Aleksandr ^b,e   Smith, Pamela K ^a   Liu, Mary Y ^c   Keltner, Dacher ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Laughter; Nonverbal behavior; Social perception; Status; Thin slices

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAUGHTER; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84975131397     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.04.005     Document Type: Article

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