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 === Laughing ===
-Laughing seems to have multiple functions all of which likely evolved from a necessity for babies to signal all is good and positive emotion. Since it signals positive emotion it is used to signal absence of threat. Absence of threat can mean that oneself is not a threat, i.e. a low status signal.
+Laughing seems to have multiple functions all of which likely evolved from a necessity for babies to signal all is good and positive emotion. Since laughing signals positive emotion it is used to signal absence of threat. Absence of threat can mean that oneself is not a threat, i.e. a low status signal.
 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.