Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers.

PLoS One · 2021 · PMC8362988 · PMID 34388212

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0.7660

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only marginally significantp = 0.766not close (p > 0.1)

For women, but not men, there was a weak (but only marginally significant) correlation between laughter rate and donations (men, r S = -0.163, N = 22, p = 0.766; women, r S = 0.288, N = 29, p = 0.065), and between IOS and donations (men, r S = 0.229, N = 22, p = 0.153; women, r S = 0.282, N = 29, p = 0.069).

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