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Laughing can act as a signal of respecting someone's status. For example, people more often laugh about jokes told by a more attractive man<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_men_are_perceived_as_.27funnier.27.2C_even_when_they_are_actually_not</ref> and attractiveness is moderately related to status.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#A_man.27s_looks_are_significantly_correlated_with_his_popularity_and_peer_status</ref> People might subconsciously do this to appease to the higher status individual in hope for increasing one's social capital. | Laughing can act as a signal of respecting someone's status. For example, people more often laugh about jokes told by a more attractive man<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_men_are_perceived_as_.27funnier.27.2C_even_when_they_are_actually_not</ref> and attractiveness is moderately related to status.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#A_man.27s_looks_are_significantly_correlated_with_his_popularity_and_peer_status</ref> People might subconsciously do this to appease to the higher status individual in hope for increasing one's social capital. | ||
There is the hearty laugh, which is excessively low in pitch, and perceived as incredibly dominant may largely be motivated by showing off one's clarity, depth and loudness of voice which men use as means of intimidation, but which is likely also under [[beauty|aesthetic sexual selection]]. Very related to this there is the evil laugh which signals indifference to someone's suffering/low status (schadenfreude) and hence signals superiority.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_laughter</ref> | There is also the hearty laugh, which is excessively low in pitch, and perceived as incredibly dominant may largely be motivated by showing off one's clarity, depth and loudness of voice which men use as means of intimidation, but which is likely also under [[beauty|aesthetic sexual selection]]. Very related to this there is the evil laugh which signals indifference to someone's suffering/low status (schadenfreude) and hence signals superiority.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_laughter</ref> | ||
Less dominant people likely also accommodate their laughter to the voice pitch and style of their higher status partners and of the group, as it is the case with voice in general. | Less dominant people likely also accommodate their laughter to the voice pitch and style of their higher status partners and of the group, as it is the case with voice in general. | ||