“…Experimental research considering how individuals respond to group laughter tends to focus mainly on perceptions of how funny a stimulus is, whether visually with cartoons and written jokes (Brown, Dixon, & Hudson, 1982;Cupchik & Leventhal, 1974;Donoghue, McCarrey, & Clément, 1983;Leventhal & Cupchik, 1975;Olson, 1992) , audio tapes of jokes, funny stories and stand-up routines (Chapman & Chapman, 1974;Freedman & Perlick, 1979;Fuller & Sheehy-Skeffington, 1974;Gruner, 1993;Lawson, Downing, & Cetola, 1998;Martin & Gray, 1996;Nosanchuk & Lightstone, 1974;Platow et al, 2005;Young & Frye, 1966) , bloopers (Pistole & Shor, 1979;Porterfield et al, 1988) , or scenes from television shows and movies (Devereux & Ginsburg, 2001;Gillespie, Mulder, & Leib, 2016;Lieberman, Neuendorf, Denny, Skalski, & Wang, 2009;Neuendorf & Fennell, 1988) . When the source of the humour is taken into account, findings…”