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Is There a Difference Between Laughter and Exclusion?
As a researcher who studies laughter, how do you respond to what christine foretold the senate? Almost unbearable to listen to. But it's also very recognizable. Because if you think about laughter as being about making and maintaining social bonds, it has to mean, by definition, that someone is excluded from that bond. So we normally dwell on the positive side of that. Look, whe're making and maintain social bonds and that scrape. But if you are excluded from that,you are excluded from that laughter. It's awful. And it's awful because we have a very, very strong understanding of what that means....