Sophie Scott
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374 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Sophie Scott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a social joy.
It's a joy that you experience when you're with other people.
So I think you can think of laughter as being an expression of a sort of playful, socially delightful joy.
It's something you experience when you're with other people.
Now, that might be on a screen or it might be in real life, but there has to be that sense of a social connection for it to start happening.
It's possible to laugh on your own.
It's just much less likely.
So I think from that perspective, it's really worth valuing laughter and taking laughter seriously because it's an emotional expression, but it's one that lives in social interactions.
And that makes it very, very interesting because unlike emotions like, say, fear and disgust or surprise,
I was once walking down the street and slipped on some ice.
I didn't completely fall over, but I slipped enough.
I completely produced an involuntary vocalization of surprise.
Oh, like that.
Absolutely involuntary.
And there's nothing social about that at all.
That was just an emotion.
I was just being driven off because I don't know quite where this is going, but something's happening.
Laughter doesn't work that way.
Laughter, you do find that people laugh when they're on their own, but it's much, much less likely.
It's primarily happening in these social interactions.
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