研究发现，笑的录音让“老爸笑话”更好笑

研究发现，笑的录音让“老爸笑话”更好笑

Don’t scoff at laugh tracks: they work.

别看不起笑的录音：它们可很有用。

According to a report published Monday in the journal Current Biology, having recorded laughter play while corny “dad jokes” are told makes people find them funnier. Spontaneous laughter, researchers found, is more effective than posed laughter, and impacts both neurotypical people and those with autism.

根据周一发表在《当代生物学》杂志上的一篇报道，当人们讲老掉牙的“老爸笑话”时，播放笑声的录音会让他们觉得更有趣。研究人员发现，自发的笑比做作的笑更有效，对神经质的人和自闭症患者都有影响。

“I’m fascinated that not only does laughter make the joke seem funnier, but that the more spontaneous the laughter, the funnier it makes the joke!” says study author Sophie Scott of the University College London in a press release.

“我着迷的是，笑不仅使笑话看起来更有趣，而且笑越自发，笑话就越有趣!”伦敦大学学院的研究作者索菲·斯科特在新闻发布会上说。

For the study, researchers had a comedian read bad jokes to two groups, one in silence, the other while accompanied by a laugh track. Half the time, the laugh track played was posed, and the other half, spontaneous-sounding.

在这项研究中，研究人员让一名喜剧演员给两组人读老笑话，一组人在安静的环境中，另一组人在听着笑声的同时听笑话。一半的时间，播放做作的笑，另一半时间，播放自发的笑。

In the two groups, participants included both neurotypical and autistic members.

在这两组参与者中，既包括神经病患者，也包括自闭症患者。

Researchers concluded the effect of laughter was the same for both participant types, concluding that everyone is influenced by laughter, be it consciously or subconsciously: the laugh track made the jokes far funnier.

研究人员得出的结论是，笑对两类参与者的效果是一样的，他们得出的结论是，每个人都会受到笑的影响，不管是有意识的还是潜意识的:笑的轨迹让笑话变得更有趣。

“We are overwhelmingly more likely to laugh when we are with other people,” the study concludes, “the presence of laughter enhances how funny people find jokes.”

研究总结道:“当我们和其他人在一起的时候，我们笑的可能性更大。笑的存在增强了人们发现笑话的趣味性。”

Next, Scott wants to look into why this is.

接下来，斯科特想看看为什么会这样。

“We want to do a brain-scanning study so we can see how the laughter influences joke perception in the brain, and whether this is the same for everyone,” says Scott.

斯科特说:“我们想做一项大脑扫描研究，这样我们就能看到笑是如何影响大脑对笑话的感知，以及这是否对每个人都一样。”