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February 12, 2026Royal Society Open ScienceOpen Access

Does laughter make everything funnier? Implicit laughter processing in autistic and non-autistic adults

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QCQing CaiMWMeghan WhiteBWBangjie Wang

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Overview

Finds differences in laughter's effect on humor perception between autistic and non-autistic adults, suggesting distinct processing pathways.

Key Points

  • To investigate how laughter influences the perception of humor in autistic versus non-autistic adults.
  • Utilized a novel implicit measure of laughter processing
  • Examined responses to genuine and posed laughter with comedic stimuli
  • Compared modulation effects of laughter on different types of humor between groups
  • In non-autistic adults, laughter significantly increased perceived funniness of humor
  • Genuine laughter was rated funnier than posed laughter in non-autistic participants
  • The laughter modulation effect was less pronounced in autistic adults, especially with non-verbal humor like burps and slapstick

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Cai et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/698d6e7b5be6419ac0d54450https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251348
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