Social facilitation of laughter in children☆
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This experiment is one conducted for a Ph.D. degree from the University of Leicester, England. It was sponsored by a studentship from the Social Science Research Council. The author wishes to express special thanks to Derek Wright for his supervision of this research. Anthony Gale and Hugh Foot kindly commented on an earlier draft of the paper.