给喜剧加上背景笑声，真能让人发笑吗？| 科学60秒

会员服务 ·

给喜剧加上背景笑声，真能让人发笑吗？| 科学60秒

2019 年 9 月 4 日 科研圈

关注领研网（ID: linkresearcher），订阅最新“科学60秒”英语新闻，不再漏掉任何一次新知 plus 练耳的机会~

含有[论文链接]、[听力原文]、[参考译文]、[重难点词汇和短语] 的完整套餐，戳下方↓

▶ 科学60秒：情景喜剧的背景笑声真的有用吗？| 2:43

笑声也会传染

从上世纪50年代起，像《生活大爆炸》（The Big Bang Theory）这样的情景喜剧就配上了背景笑声，让电视机前的观众跟着一起咯咯发笑。但是这种做法早在电台节目里就有了。

“如果你只是在电台里播放喜剧节目，人们不一定能意识到节目的笑点。所以制作方开始在录制的时候加上现场观众，因为如果有观众在现场，他们就能感受到节目的笑点，也就是会产生现场反应。而事实上，笑声具有高度传染性。”伦敦大学学院（University College London）的认知神经学家索菲·司各特（Sophie Sott）说。她的团队想知道，讲笑话的时候添加笑声是否会让笑话听上去更好笑。所以，他们在网上搜罗了能找到的最搞笑的笑话，然后让专业的喜剧演员录制下来。

“所以我们找到了像‘一周里最适合下厨的日子是哪天？油炸日周五（Friday）；恐龙怎么付钱？使用霸王龙支票（谐音银行本票 treasurer’s checks）’这样的笑话。然后让人们在没有添加笑声的情况下给笑话的搞笑程度打分。”

随后，研究人员给笑话同时添加上自发的真实笑声，和刻意的假笑声。

他们给成人听众播放了这些录音，其中一些人是非自闭的人（neurotypical），有一些则是自闭症患者。

“我们主要的发现是，自闭症患者和一般精神状态的人会被同样方式的笑声影响：大家都感觉……[查看全文]

Real Laughs Motivate More Guffaws

[CLIP: I Love Lucy with laugh track]

Laugh tracks in television shows like I Love Lucy have been encouraging us to chuckle since the 1950s. But they originated even before that with old radio shows.

“If you just put out a comedy program on the radio, people didn’t necessarily realize it was supposed to be funny. So they started recording them with a live audience because then people had all the cues that they would get if they were at the theaters, say—of an audience response. And,indeed, laughter can be highly contagious.”

Sophie Scott is a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London. She and her team wondered whether adding laughter to a joke could also make it seem funnier. So they scoured the Internet for the most groan-worthy jokes they could find and enlisted the help of a professional comedian to record them.

“So things like ‘What’s the best day for cooking? Friday. How does a dinosaur pay its bills? Using tyrannosaurus checks,’ that kind of thing. And then we got people to rate how funny they were without any laughter added.”

The researchers paired the jokes with both spontaneous, involuntary laughter and with laughter that had been produced on demand.

[CLIP: Lemonade joke with laughter]

They played these recordings to adults, some neurotypical and some on the spectrum.

“The main thing that we found was that the people with autism and the neurotypical controls were both influenced by laughter in the same way. So everybody found that…[read more]

扫描关注“领研网”微信公众号

订阅最新“科学60秒”英语新闻

不再漏掉任何一次新知 plus 练耳的机会~