• Question: is laughing contagious?

    Asked by confuddled213 to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Yes, there is evidence to suggest that when you see an emotion on others faces you start to experience the emotion. Of course this is to a different degree for different people (I do it a lot!), so yes laughter is contagious – but so is sadness 🙁

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      And yawning…

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Pip +1

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