| 研究実績の概要 |
While the results of a literature review were somewhat disappointing, they clarified empirically what the dominant views of solitary laughter have been, and the search and analysis demonstrated above all that there is extremely little on the positive benefits of laughing alone and apparently little inclination to pursue the topic within the social sciences. Given that positive references to solitary laughter appear in the works of earlier psychologists, we may reasonably speculate that the orientation toward social contextualization and empirical study militate against a thorough exploration of laughing alone.
Through exploring the history of discourse on solitary laughter with an informal collaborator from the field of psychology it was learned that quantitative research methodology may be limited in its capacity to explore and understand solitary laughter and its effects.
This eventually led to joint publication of an article titled “'You can end up in a happy place'(Voyce): a role for positive autoethnography.” This article, published in 2023, proposed the creation of a formal and systematic academic merging of autoethnographic method with positive psychology, even though the latter has generally been reluctant to endorse qualitative methods.
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