Neural processing of laughter in depression.

Sci Rep · 2025 · PMC12034789 · PMID 40289125

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We found significantly higher percentages of negative responses indicating a strongly negative (--) social intent attribution (both T(98) > 2.22, both p < 0.02, d = 0.50) and correspondingly lower percentages for strongly positive (++) intent attributions which scarcely failed to reach significance (both T(98) > 1.51, both p < 0.07).

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