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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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A study of laughter in science lessons [PDF]
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011 Laughter is a fundamental human phenomenon. Yet there is little educational research on the potential functions of laughter on the enacted (lived) curriculum. In this study, we identify the functions of laughter in a beginning science teacher's classroom
Wolff-Michael Roth +2 more
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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.
Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic
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Laughter: Belly-aching Laughter
, 2016 This chapter surveys media that elicits laughter from the spectator. The chapter examines laughter as an involuntary response to a wide range of experiences, and not simply things that could be considered humorous. Laughter (particularly in the communal setting of a theater, or among friends) might follow jump-out-of-your-seat frights in a horror film,
Aaron Michael Kerner, Jonathan L. Knapp
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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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lambda nordica, 2022 Laughter was considered fundamental to sociability in eighteenth-century Britain, but it was a complex social signal: as Samuel Johnson observed, ‘you may laugh in as many ways as you talk’. In its various guises, laughing could communicate anything from
Davison, K.
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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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