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The MAHNOB Laughter database [PDF]
Image and Vision Computing, 2013 Laughter is clearly an audiovisual event, consisting of the laughter vocalization and of facial activity, mainly around the mouth and sometimes in the upper face. A major obstacle in studying the audiovisual aspects of laughter is the lack of suitable data.
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Liberating the mental health and wellbeing benefits of laughing alone: a new taxonomic model and scoping review for future research [PDF]
Discover Mental HealthLaughter has been predominantly viewed as a social behavior, and laughing alone is often regarded doubtfully, even pathologized. While solitary laughter can be symptomatic of mental health issues, one motivation of this review was to explore whether it ...
Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Laughter and yawning can both occur spontaneously and are highly contagious forms of social behavior. When occurring contagiously, laughter and yawning are usually confounded with a social situation and it is difficult to determine to which degree the ...
Micaela De Weck +4 more
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Laughter as a Semiotic Problem
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2021 Purpose. The article is aimed to substantiate the view on the phenomenon of laughter as a subject of semiotic analysis, which leads to the following tasks: to reveal the possibilities of semiotics application in the study of laughter nature; to analyze ...
V. A. Vershyna, O. V. Mykhailiuk
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The effect of laughter yoga on working memory
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 A growing body of evidence suggests that there is a link between laughter and memory. However, no research has been done to show a link between simulated laughter (laughter yoga) and the enhancement of working memory.
Md. Shahinoor Rahman, Farida Binte Wali
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Scientific Reports, 2022 It has been shown that the acoustical signal of posed laughter can convey affective information to the listener. However, because posed and spontaneous laughter differ in a number of significant aspects, it is unclear whether affective communication ...
Diana P. Szameitat +2 more
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 Abstract Like most human non-verbal vocalizations, laughter is produced by speakers of all languages, across all known societies. But despite this obvious fact (or perhaps because of it), there is little comparative research examining the structural and functional similarity of laughter across speakers from different cultures.
Gregory A. Bryant +1 more
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The Small Face of Traditional and Complementary Medical Applications: Laughter Yoga
Anadolu Hemşirelik ve Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi, 2021 Laughter is usually acknowledged as a visual representation of happiness or feeling of joy. It is known that laughter positively effects human body physiologically and psychologically.
Zülfünaz ÖZER, Sebahat ATEŞ
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Humor and the Law: Laughter as Critique/The Limits of Laughter [PDF]
Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2023 In this introduction, we outline several approaches to the role humor might play in relation to the law through the six articles contributed to this special issue and through important and more recent theories that have guided discussions of humor. We take up two aspects in particular when addressing the efficacy of humor: its ability to serve as a ...
Brigitte Adriaensen +3 more
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Different types of laughter modulate connectivity within distinct parts of the laughter perception network. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Laughter is an ancient signal of social communication among humans and non-human primates. Laughter types with complex social functions (e.g., taunt and joy) presumably evolved from the unequivocal and reflex-like social bonding signal of tickling ...
Dirk Wildgruber +6 more
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