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Dataset of transcribed Indonesian stand-up comedy videos with audience laughter annotations from Kompas TV's YouTube channel. [PDF]

Data Brief
Supriyono, Wibawa AP, Suyono, Kurniawan F, Pranolo A, Saubari N, Wang K.   +6 more
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The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Chemotherapy-Induced Symptoms and Sleep Quality in Patients with Haematologic Cancer. [PDF]

Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
Ugur O, Bedez G, Zeybekci S, Karadag E.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Social Context Disambiguates the Interpretation of Laughter

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Despite being a pan-cultural phenomenon, laughter is arguably the least understood behaviour deployed in social interaction. As well as being a response to humour, it has other important functions including promoting social affiliation, developing ...
William Curran, Gary J. McKeown, Magdalena Rychlowska, Elisabeth André, Johannes Wagner, Florian Lingenfelser   +5 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, Diana P Szameitat, Thomas Ethofer, Carolin Brück, Kai Alter, Wolfgang Grodd, Benjamin Kreifelts   +6 more
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Theme of Laughter in Ksenia Buksha's Advent

СибСкрипт, 2023
This article discusses laughter as one of the structure-forming themes in Ksenia Buksha's novel Advent (2021). The novel consists of two parts, the retrospective one being graphically separated from the main narrative. The theme of laughter does not seem
Kapitalina V. Sinegubova
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Laughter as a specific means of physical recreation

Tělesná Kultura, 2014
BACKGROUND: Laughter, the accompanying phenomenon of human society in the course of its historical development, is not just a physical manifestation of hilarity.
Lucie Lauermanová, Dana Štěrbová, Martin Kudláček   +2 more
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Children's Laughter and Emotion Sharing With Peers and Adults in Preschool

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
The present study investigates how laughter features in the everyday lives of 3–5-year old children in Swedish preschools. It examines and discusses typical laughter patterns and their functions with a particular focus on children's and intergenerational
Asta Cekaite, Mats Andrén
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The role of laughter in establishing solidarity and status

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022
Drawing on a range of American, Australian, British and Scandinavian research into laughter, the current paper will use the form of pragmatic analysis typically found in qualitative research and apply it to data produced by the quantitative methodology ...
Angus James McLachlan
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Decoding brain basis of laughter and crying in natural scenes

NeuroImage, 2023
Laughter and crying are universal signals of prosociality and distress, respectively. Here we investigated the functional brain basis of perceiving laughter and crying using naturalistic functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) approach.
Lauri Nummenmaa, Tuulia Malèn, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Severi Santavirta, Henry K. Karlsson, Matthew Hudson, Jussi Hirvonen, Mikko Sams, Sophie Scott, Vesa Putkinen   +11 more
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Effect Of Mirthful Laughter On Vascular Function [PDF]

, 2010
In contrast to the well-established scientific evidence linking negative emotional states (e.g., depression, anxiety, or anger) to increased risk for cardiovascular disease, much less is known about the association between positive emotional states (e.g.,
Sugawara, Jun, Tanaka, Hirofumi, Tarumi, Takahashi   +2 more
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