Are they friends or not? Just a second of laughter can reveal relationship status, UCLA study finds

Riccardo Fusaroli

School of Communication and Culture - Center for Semiotics
School of Culture and Society - Culture, Cognition and Computation, Department for

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Hearing other people laugh together, even for just one second, can be enough information to gauge whether or not those people are friends, according to a UCLA study.

Period	12 Apr 2016

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Title	Are they friends or not? Just a second of laughter can reveal relationship status, UCLA study finds
Media name/outlet	UCLA News
Date	12/04/2016
URL	newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/friends-or-not-laughter-reveal-friendship-status-ucla-study
Persons	Riccardo Fusaroli

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Are they friends or not? Just a second of laughter can reveal relationship status, UCLA study finds

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Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies