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Nov.29,2011
My new roommate laughs when she says things sometimes. It seems sort of forced, not a genuine laugh at all. I feel like she’s covering something up, or trying to make the situation better or something?
In terms of body language, why might someone do this?
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it can be anthing (like nerves or unsureness or fakeness )its better not to overjudge it.
maybe she is just retarded
sometimes it is because they don’t want you to find something out or they are not as comfortable with you to tell the truth just yet. just give them some time and become better of friends and they should ease up!
u never know until u ask her the truth.
I sometimes do that out of nervousness.
Laughter masks fear of rejection or judgement, she just has low self confidence.
Really you can hide a lot of things in a laugh, but its best not to get suspicious…. she’s probably just nervous about something or doesn’t quite know how to react, and so the default is usually a small chuckle. In another case they could also be trying to ease tension, which laughter is known to do. It’s probably better if you didn’t think about it too much.
Yes, laughter is a form of anxiety. And I laugh constantly even when things aren’t that funny
It’s hard not to. Just be patient with her and try to make her comfortable.
Comedians are often depressed people, trying to make themselves feel better. She may be trying to appear amused, etc. in order to feel more acceptable to others, masking an inner lack of security, or trying to be popular, or at least, not rejected/blacklisted.
I’m currently working on my bio-psych doctorate and I have severe attention deficit disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, this could be a couple of things really. People definitely laugh when they feel awkward or don’t know what’s expected of them, many times women laugh when they are being sexually harassed because of this, they don’t want to be confrontational so they try to ignore what’s happening and hope it stops; I don’t mean to say this is the case with your situation I just wanted to put this out there.
As I mentioned I have severe ADD and I’ve noticed that I laugh for no particular reason when I’m not quite paying attention (or I might laugh if something funny comes to mind). I’m pretty sure that the reason I laugh for no particular reason is because it’s a learned response, people just like animals, respond quickly to social conditioning and the laugh is something that is very unlikely to be interpreted negatively. Since people that have ADD have trouble following conversations a lot of times they have a tendency to subconsciously pick up habits that lead to greater social approval. For example, if I’m talking to my friend and she starts talking about something that really interests her, but not so much with me, I don’t want to sit there with a blank expression on my face so I have a tendency to laugh or smile and look really interested, especially if she smiles or I get the feeling she’s joking about something. I have pretty good accuracy with this, but definitely not as good as someone that pays really good attention, I’ve noticed that most people can’t tell I’m doing this but some people are more perceptive. You sound like one of these people, the way you said your roommate was trying to make the situation better is exactly right if they do indeed have ADD. It could just be nervousness though, one way to tell is to hold hold eye-contact with the person for a few seconds and see if they look away.