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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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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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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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The subversive power of laughter: Plato and Aristotle on humour
, 2021 Plato explicitly theorises about laughter in three dialogues: Republic (388a-389a, 605c-607a); Philebus (47e-50b); and Laws (816d-817a, 935a-936a). Although it is not possible to construct an overarching Platonic “theory” of laughter, this thesis argues,
Daly, Emily
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Laughter as medical providers' resource : negotiating informed choice in prenatal genetic counseling [PDF]
, 2011 This article aims to challenge the perception that in medical encounters laughter is an interactional resource primarily employed by patients. Drawing on 34 video-recorded prenatal genetic counseling (PGC) sessions collected in a Hong Kong hospital, and ...
Schnurr, S +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 +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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