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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 +5 more
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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 +11 more
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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 +2 more
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Knowledge-Based Systems, 2014 Social signals are integral to conversational interaction and constitute a large part of the social dynamics of multiparty communication. Moreover, social signals may also have a function in discourse structure. We focus on laughter, exploring the extent to which laughter can be shown to signal the structural unfolding of conversation and whether ...
Francesca Bonin +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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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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The Ambiguous Motive of Laughter in Dostoevsky’s Novel “The Idiot” [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2018 The article examines the ambiguous motive of laughter (or his species) and the role of the laughter of different characters in the novel. Here are analyzed the peculiarities of the heroes’ laughter, the comical episodes of the novel and the meaning the ...
Maria M. Alekseeva
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Objectives Laughter as an expression of humor has been recognized as good medicine for centuries. The health benefits of humor-induced well-being remain unclear and thus we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies to ...
Caroline Kaercher Kramer +1 more
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Laughter, bonding and biological evolution
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 This paper combines perspectives from evolutionary biology and linguistics to discuss the early evolution of laughter and the possible role of laughter-like vocalisation as a bonding mechanism in hominins and early human species.
Cliff Goddard, David Lambert
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