Social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold

Dunbar, R. I. M., Baron, Rebecca, Frangou, Anna, Pearce, Eiluned, van Leeuwen, Edwin J. C., Stow, Julie, Partridge, Giselle, MacDonald, Ian +2 more·2012·Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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