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Stress-reducing effect of laughter in live comedy performance from salivary α-amylase and salivary oxytocin. [PDF]

BMC Res Notes
Horie K, Nanashima N, In N, Tomisawa T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Timing structures in live comedy: A matched-sequence approach to mapping performance dynamics. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Pope VC, Stewart R, Chew E.
europepmc   +1 more source

The company you keep: becoming one(self) in an Indonesian convent En bonne compagnie : devenir (quelqu’)un dans un couvent indonésien Pergaulan dalam biara di Indonesia: sebuah proses pembentukan diri*

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
wiley   +1 more source

When Laughter Knocks You Out: A Case of Laughing-Induced Syncope and a Review of the Literature. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
Abutu S, El-Din M, Raju P, Antoun I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laughing During Conversations, But Not in Response to Digital Media, Is Associated With Less Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Social Withdrawal: A Cross-Sectional Study of German Adults in 2023. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Hajek A, Sutin AR, Veronese N, Soysal P, Jacob L, Luchetti M, Gyasi RM, Kostev K, Pengpid S, Peltzer K, Terracciano A, König HH.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

How recreational therapies impact physiological and psychosocial outcomes in cancer patients: a review. [PDF]

Oncol Rev
D'Oria M, Casà C, Cenci C, Fusco D, Di Capua B, Vergani E, Monti L, Cardillo A, Miccichè F, Bria E, Tagliaferri L, Gambacorta MA, Tortora G, Valentini V.   +13 more
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source