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| Title |
Telling Friend from Foe: Listeners Are Unable to Identify In-Group and Out-Group Members from Heard Laughter
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, November 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02006 |
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| Authors |
Marie Ritter, Disa A. Sauter |
| Abstract |
Group membership is important for how we perceive others, but although perceivers can accurately infer group membership from facial expressions and spoken language, it is not clear whether listeners can identify in- and out-group members from non-verbal vocalizations. In the current study, we examined perceivers' ability to identify group membership from non-verbal vocalizations of laughter, testing the following predictions: (1) listeners can distinguish between laughter from different nationalities and (2) between laughter from their in-group, a close out-group, and a distant out-group, and (3) greater exposure to laughter from members of other cultural groups is associated with better performance. Listeners (n = 814) took part in an online forced-choice classification task in which they were asked to judge the origin of 24 laughter segments. The responses were analyzed using frequentist and Bayesian statistical analyses. Both kinds of analyses showed that listeners were unable to accurately identify group identity from laughter. Furthermore, exposure did not affect performance. These results provide a strong and clear demonstration that group identity cannot be inferred from laughter. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 37 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 19% |
| Netherlands | 5 | 14% |
| Germany | 4 | 11% |
| United States | 3 | 8% |
| Spain | 3 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 5% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 3% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 3% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 10 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 27 | 73% |
| Scientists | 5 | 14% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 23 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 23 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 4 | 17% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 13% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 9% |
| Researcher | 2 | 9% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Unknown | 7 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 11 | 48% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 7 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2018.
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#1,513,079
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#3,066
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#28,193
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#73
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