With cross-cultural tasks, there is always a risk that participants don’t have the right idea about what they should be doing. To control for this, the

With cross-cultural tasks, there is always a risk that participants don’t have the right idea about what they should be doing. To control for this, the researchers also played participants vocal noises and found that all groups preferred laughter rather than gasps. What? It is a much different thing noticing differences between melodies and differences between laughs and gasps.