How many times does the average person laugh per day?
~30× more likely in company
HabitsThe often-quoted figures (adults 15 times a day, children 300) have no traceable study behind them; Robert Provine, who studied laughter for decades, said nobody has actually counted. What is well documented: laughter is about 30 times more frequent in company than alone, and most of it follows ordinary remarks rather than jokes.
Source: Provine (2000), Laughter: A Scientific Investigation
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