Affiliation:
1. University of Groningen
2. University of Gothenburg
Abstract
Abstract
Previous experimental findings support the hypothesis that laughter and positive emotions are contagious in
face-to-face and mediated communication. To test this hypothesis, we describe four experiments in which participants communicate
via a chat tool that artificially adds or removes laughter (e.g. haha or lol), without
participants being aware of the manipulation. We found no evidence to support the contagion hypothesis. However, artificially
exposing participants to more lols decreased participants’ use of hahas but led to more
involvement and improved task-performance. Similarly, artificially exposing participants to more hahas decreased
use of haha but increased lexical alignment. We conclude that, even though the interventions have effects on
coordination, they are incompatible with contagion as a primary explanatory mechanism. Instead, these results point to an
interpretation that involves a more sophisticated view of dialogue mechanisms along the lines of Conversational Analysis and
similar frameworks and we suggest directions for future research.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Human-Computer Interaction,Linguistics and Language,Animal Science and Zoology,Language and Linguistics,Communication
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