ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Propagation and Synchronization of Contagious Laughter in Theater
- Ryota Nomura
Tokyo University of Science - Ryota Nomura
The University of Tokyo - Shunichi Maruno
Kyushu University
Abstract
We propose a mathematical model to explain the propagation of contagious laughter among audience, by considering other’s laughter as social clues of cognitive elaboration. This model fits the laughing behaviors in theater and numerically predicts emergence of laughter synchronization when laughing audience is lacking in sensitivity to actor’s input.
Music and Arts
