News tagged with laughter
A Serious Question: Why Do We Laugh?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not surprisingly, Robert Lynch begins his research paper "It's Funny Because We Think It's True: Laughter is Augmented by Implicit Preferences" with a joke. Not his joke, but one taken from a ...
Fear of being laughed at crosses cultural boundaries
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Laughter is an emotional expression that is innate in human beings. This means laughing at others is also believed to be a universal phenomenon. However, the fear of being laughed at causes some people enormous ...
Goose bumps, laughter and butterflies
Sep 14, 2009 |
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The human body is as mysterious as it is magnificent. For every essential function like thought or a heartbeat, the body exhibits quirky behaviors that seem to defy explanation. Like goose bumps. Or hiccups. ...
Laughter Differs In Children With Autism
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 10, 2009 |
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According to a recent paper entitled "Laughter Differs in Children with Autism: An Acoustic Analysis of Laughter Produced by Children with and without the Disorder" in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, childr ...
Reconstructing the evolution of laughter in great apes and humans
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Like human infants, young apes are known to hoot and holler when you tickle them. But is it fair to say that those playful calls are really laughter? The answer to that question is yes, say researchers reporting ...
It really may be the best medicine
May 15, 2009 |
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Talk turned serious -- painfully so, at times -- during the two hours of group discussion.
Laughter remains good medicine
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 17, 2009 |
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The connection between the body, mind and spirit has been the subject of conventional scientific inquiry for some 20 years. The notion that psychosocial and societal considerations have a role in maintaining health and preventing ...
