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Laughing seems to have multiple functions all of which likely like smiling 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 seems to have multiple functions all of which likely like smiling 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 admitting someone more (intellectual) status, e.g. by laughing about people's jokes. | Laughing can act as a signal of admitting someone more (intellectual) status, e.g. by laughing about people's jokes. People are very conservative about whose jokes they laugh about because admitting someone higher status means lowering one's own [[reproductive success]]. | ||
People also laugh about jokes to signal they understood it, i.e. to assert status themselves. | |||
People might subconsciously laugh more about high status individual's jokes as appeasement in hope for increasing one's social capital. 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 laugh more about high status individual's jokes as appeasement in hope for increasing one's social capital. 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> | ||