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“If implicit preferences affect our response to humor, then laughter may serve as a signal that we share the joke teller’s beliefs, biases, or preferences,” says Robert Lynch. His research suggests that since humor is entirely subjective, our laughter signals to others that we have a bond with them.
RUTGERS (US)—Laughing at funny things is universal, but what individuals find funny is not. An anthropologist studying the evolutionary function of laughter has found that for something to be funny, it must ring true. Continue…
