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An experiment was performed to demonstrate the efficacy of controlling the laugh response in humans by aversive audiostimulation and to study the immediate aftereffects of suppression of laughter on the laugh response. The findings suggest that audiostimulation occurring after material usually eliciting laughter and in the place of the laughter response, tended to decrease the frequency of occurrence of the response and removal of the aversive stimulation tended to be followed by an accelerated frequency of laughing.
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Main, D.C., Schillace, R.J. Aversive stimulation and the laughter response. Psychon Sci 13, 241–242 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342503
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