时差N小时 笑容的秘密

Laughter research has found that only a small percentage oflaughter, less than 20%, is a sincere response to someone's humor.

对笑容的研究表明只有小部分—不超过20%的笑容是发自肺腑的对于某人幽默的回应。

In fact, laughter is primarily asocial signal, as opposed to an emotional outburst.

事实上，笑容主要是一种社交讯号，而非感情释放。

People are 30 times more likely to laugh in a group setting than when they are alone, leadingobservers to conclude laughter has a primarily social function.

人们在人群中笑的次数是他们在独处时的30倍甚至更多，使研究人员由此推断笑容首先具有一种社交作用。

For instance, there's “polite” laughter. How often have you found yourself laughing at someone'sattempt at being funny in order to spare their feelings or make them feel good?

例如，“礼节性”的笑容。你发现你有多少次对别人试图表现的幽默报之一笑，只是为了照顾他们的情绪或者让他们感觉更好？

Research has also found that women tend to laugh a good deal more than men.

研究还发现女人比男人发笑的次数更多。

And malespeakers tend to elicit¹ more laughter than female speakers.

而男性演说家比女性更倾向于逗人发笑。

Laughter may very well be a sign of power dynamics² between people, signaling dominance andsubmission, acceptance and rejection³.

笑容是人们之间一个非常好的权力演变信号，代表支配和屈服，接受和拒绝。

Certainly, that seems to be the case when someone islaughing at you rather than with you.

当然，这似乎出现在当别人嘲笑你而不是和你一起笑的情况下。

1 elicit   

v.引出,抽出,引起

参考例句：

• It was designed to elicit the best thinking within the government. 机构的设置是为了在政府内部集思广益。
• Don't try to elicit business secrets from me. I won't tell you anything. 你休想从我这里套问出我们的商业机密, 我什么都不会告诉你的。

2 dynamics   

n.力学，动力学，动力，原动力；动态

参考例句：

• In order to succeed,you must master complicated knowledge of dynamics.要取得胜利，你必须掌握很复杂的动力学知识。
• Dynamics is a discipline that cannot be mastered without extensive practice.动力学是一门不做大量习题就不能掌握的学科。

3 rejection   

n.拒绝，被拒，抛弃，被弃

参考例句：

• He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.他因怕遭拒绝决定不再去找她。
• The rejection plunged her into the dark depths of despair.遭到拒绝使她陷入了绝望的深渊。