Laughing comes naturally whenever we are with people who are close to us.
Were there times when you almost lost your breath due to laughing? Does it always happens with people close to you?
Was there a time when you realized that those people you always have laughing times with are the ones who really know you?
Actually, laughter reveal who among your friends are really close and true to you.
An associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Greg Bryant, led a research study that aimed to discover if laughter really means something.
According to the study led by the associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, the chuckles we make when we are with our friends is different.
It gives a more of the feeling of excitement than the ones with people who are not close to us or we haven’t known enough.
Bryant even told Live Science in an email that it is often faster and has more irregularities in frequency and loudness that gives it an aroused sound.
In the study, the researchers recognized that laughter is a way to vent out optimistic feelings and as well as a solid mindset.
But there is one more thing in laughter aside from it denotes happiness and closeness.
Bryant and his colleagues included in their study the clues that laughter might provide.
Laughter actually provides clues for eavesdroppers as they have cited.
The researchers found that even a mere stranger who tries to eavesdrop could actually determines whether the people talking are close or not.
Through their laughter, their sense of closeness can be deciphered even by a stranger.
The prior researches conducted about laughter didn’t dealt with the differences in race and in culture.
Bryant, together with his co-researcher Daniel Fessler, find a way to discover if the ‘laughter reveals true friends’ idea is universal across cultures.
For the result, the researchers found that the idea is really cross-cultural.