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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Joyful laughter is the only laughter type that has received sufficient validation in terms of morphology (i.e., face, voice). Still, it is unclear whether joyful laughter involves one prototypical facial-morphological configuration (Duchenne Display and ...
Jennifer eHofmann
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Psychology of Laughter in a Structural-Dialectical Approach
Культурно-историческая психология, 2023 The article is devoted to the discussion of the psychology of laughter from the perspective of its functional purpose in culture. Addressing the topic of laughter is needed to describe its counterintuitive nature, consisting of dialectical ...
N.E. Veraksa +2 more
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From positive psychology to positive biology: laughter and longevity
Exploration of Medicine, 2023 Gelotology (the study of laughter) has it seems mainly evaded the attention of longevity scientists, positive biologists, and geroscientists. However, the potential of laughter to result in immediate improved affect, increase overall well-being, reduce ...
Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky
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Virginia Stephen (Woolf) et le rire comme horizon
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2011 It is quite unusual to connect Virginia Woolf with laughter. However, in 1905, Virginia Stephen published in The Guardian an essay called ‘The Value of Laughter’. Laughter is what the young essayist calls for.
Christine Reynier
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Effect of Laughter Therapy on the Psychological and Physiological State of a Person
PsichologijaThe study of laughter therapy can help people better understand how laughter can reduce stress, boost mood, and improve the immune system and overall physical condition, so this topic is quite relevant and necessary in the modern world. The influence of
Liana Spytska
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Autistic adults perceive and experience laughter differently to non-autistic adults
Scientific ReportsHuman interaction is immersed in laughter; though genuine and posed laughter are acoustically distinct, they are both crucial socio-emotional signals.
Ceci Q. Cai +4 more
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The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné +3 more
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Foucault, Laughter, and Gendered Normalization
Foucault Studies, 2015 Thus far, little attention has been paid by Foucauldian scholars to the role of laughter in our subjectivation and normalization, nor to the possible roles of laughter practices in political resistance.
Emily R. Douglas
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