Can you always tell the difference between genuine laughter and nervous laughter?
How keen to you have to be to decipher the difference?
Watch eye movements, tone, and body posture. With some people their eyes will tend to bulge or avert from making contact if they are faking something. Their tone will either be uneasy, or, if they are good at acting, will be overly exagerated. That's what I notice? But mainly the way they laugh. You will be able to identify a forced laugh.
Always look at the eyes...they never lie. A genuine laugh involves the whole face...the eyes will 'twinkle' and 'laugh' as well. That doesn't happen with nervous or false laughter.
Yes I think so :):):)
not very you can just tell by how tense they are and it is usually different than a normal one, if you know the person you can definitely tell. Usually a nervous laugh is very airy with lots of little breaks, airy meaning, with lots of sighing
Look at their eyes with a nervous laughter you tend to get a blank stare with it.
My daughter does this and for most people, it is difficult for them to tell whether she is laughing because she's nervous or because she finds something funny. She has gotten into many problems with teachers at school and most get really upset. She's generally a great person but when she gets nervous, she laughs or smiles. I can tell the difference because when she's nervous, you can see it in her eyes. Most of the time, she laughs or smiles to hide her true feelings that she doesn't want displayed so when someone gets really upset by her nervous laughter or smile, she cries.
Yes. Genuine laughter is lower pitched generally.
Belly laughs vs airy giggles
nervous laughter will not sound as real it may crack or sound higher pitched.genuine laughter will be a belly laugh.study the body language,and the way the face wrinkles when a person laughs from the gut or just making it up.
If you've been with a particular person for a while you'll recognise his natural laughing 'habits'. If his laugh sounds a little held back, or his eyes are not looking in the direction of the subject, or standing in a defensive pose (covering or rubbing his eyes, arms crossed, scratching an itch etc) you can probably tell its a fake or nervous laugh.
Actually, read this comic. Its hilarious:
http://www.basicinstructions.net/2006/08…
Actually, read this comic. Its hilarious:
http://www.basicinstructions.net/2006/08…