ISCA Archive LW 2020
ISCA Archive LW 2020

Social and acoustic determinants of subjective judgments of laughter intensity

Magdalena Rychlowska, Gary McKeown, Ian Sneddon, William Curran

Existing research links subjective judgments of perceived laughter intensity with features such as duration, amplitude, fundamental frequency, and voicing. We examine these associations in a new database of social laughs produced in situations inducing amusement, embarrassment, and schadenfreude. We also test the extent to which listeners' judgments of laughter intensity vary as a function of the social situation in which laughs were produced.