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Interpersonal closeness may have been amplified through laughter, which has been shown to lead to greater pain threshold increase (endorphin release) in social versus solitary settings, but is limited to bonding no more than three individuals at a time in typical conversational interactions.
“Interpersonal closeness may have been amplified through laughter, which has been shown to lead to greater pain threshold increase (endorphin release) in social versus solitary settings [34], but is limited to bonding no more than three individuals at a time in typical conversational interactions [58].”
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- Authors
- Dezecache, G., & Dunbar, R. I. M.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Dezecache, Guillaume
- Dunbar, R.I.M.
- Venue
- Evolution and Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-11
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 775-779
- ISSN
- 1090-5138 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1977532511
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 7.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Evolution and Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Humor Studies and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- laughter, social bonding, group size, grooming, social networks, primate social behavior, human evolution
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