When around others. Scott wanted to investigate whether that theory was true and it peoples perceptions about
What is funny could be influenced
How did hearing laughter
affect people in the study?
After hearing fake laughs but not
spontaneousnes people stopped
laughing
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Ideas
After heng both spontaneous and
fake lough people geskes higher
Researchers had study participants listen to 40 groen
Worthy jokes. Then they rated the jokes on a scale of 1 to 7
regarding how funny they were
Alte hang sotonus loughs but
Not foke ones people told
Unsurprising the jokes recewed low ratings from study
participants ranging from 15 to 375 However, when
recorded laughter followed the jokes, the trend changed
and ratings went up The ratings improved 15 to 20
percent when participants heard spontaneous laughter
and 10 percent when the jokes were accompanied by
forces toke sounding laughter
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Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.