The Laughter Project is a PhD research supervised by Prof Sophie Scott and Dr Sarah White. We focus on the processing and production of laughter in typical developing and autistic adults.
The Laughter Project

The Laughter Project is a PhD research supervised by Prof Sophie Scott and Dr Sarah White. We focus on the processing and production of laughter in typical developing and autistic adults.
Funded by UCL’s GEO, this study aims to study cognitive differences in autism, within the Pakistani population.
In this project, we will investigate the effect of inter-group bias on spontaneous mentalizing in neurotypical and autistic individuals.
Investigating the ‘Triple I Hypothesis’ – an inability to infer implicit instructions (White, 2013), this project aims to explore the role of implicit mentalizing in executive function difficulties experienced by autistic individuals within open-ended executive function tasks.
Deception is ever-present in day-to-day life, and this project aims to investigate how the ability to detect deception develops over time and if this ability might be an area of difficulty for autistic individuals.
The M&C Project aims to explore mental state decoding and reasoning, the possibilities of modulating mentalizing performance, the role of compensation and its outcomes on mental health in individuals with various degrees of autistic traits.
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