Laughter as a social status signaller and social exclusion tool

[BlackPill Scholar]

"While the norms of most social groups prevent direct, unambiguous acts of aggression and dominance, the use of laughter may free individuals to display dominance because laughter renders the act less serious."

Laughter signals higher social status, an observation made by the observer indicates to them a failure on the subjects part. Laughter is a great way to signal 'not only did I just observe your failure, I'm going to signal to you that I find it below me, by this rhythmic pulse of my vocal cords I shall signal to those around that I am of higher competence than thou.'

In cases of group laughter, it's a chain reaction of vocalisations. This allows an entire group to push a single individual to the bottom of the group, thereby raising all the other group members relative social positions.

Laughter Conveys Social Status

Naïve participants were highly accurate at judging an individual’s social rank just by listening to their laughter.

www.psychologicalscience.org

 

[OwlGod]

While the norms of most social groups prevent direct, unambiguous acts of aggression and dominance, the use of laughter may free individuals to display dominance because laughter renders the act less serious

the more I read it, the more seems like signaling of weakness, submission, agreeableness. fear-driven act.
of course, someone laughing at you probably because they see you as inferior, a joke, still, laughing and smiling too often is pretty much my first point.