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Psychologist explores scientific side of laughter

The doctor is in, and she has relayed some important information to college kids on how to hook up using a free technique known as laughter.

According to altpenis.com, an authoritative Web site about laughter and sexual attraction, a profound scientific study regarding human interaction and laughter was recently conducted by Dr. Jo-Anne Bacharowski of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.

Alongside Vanderbilt graduate student Moria Smoski and Cornell professor Michael J. Owren, Bacharowski studied 120 undergraduates in the way they laugh around their peers.

As a basis for her study, Bacharowski stated on the Web site: "We think laughter is one of a package of subtle yet effective tools, like physical proximity and eye gaze, to shape the emotional and behavioral responses of others."

What Bacharowski and her team discovered were some specific and distinct laughing characteristics between men and women when in each other's presence. The team offers these explorations in gender-distinct giggles as ripe green vines from which to swing in the jungle of the dating game.

About women, the team found that, "When paired with male strangers, women's laughter tends to be higher pitched, indicative of smaller body size, possibly exploiting men's propensity to be attracted to females with juvenile features."

Have no fear, lovely ladies, because, no matter how you laugh, Bacharowski claims your charming chuckles can do everything short of hypnotize your potential partner.

"A woman can control the emotional stance of a male towards her by producing these acoustically extreme laughs," she stated on altpenis.com.

Oh, and guys, heads up because the team discovered some glittering jewels for you to drop the next time you are making the rounds on Fourth Avenue.

"If a male wants to impress a female, he shouldn't make sounds that would increase her level of arousal or activation," Bacharowski continued. "In the presence of a male stranger, the female may interpret her arousal as being negative. It may be more effective for a male to initially produce somewhat innocuous laughs at a fairly low rate, and to expand his laugh repertoire only in the course of a developing relationship."

Bacharowski's study did not focus solely on laughter in sexually potent social environments. The research also spanned different kinds of laughter a human can produce in comparison with some non-human primates.