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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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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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Laughter and humour for personal development: A systematic scoping review of the evidence [PDF]
, 2020 The accessibility of laughter and humour make them attractive choices for self-care, and integrative medicine. There is a growing body of literature, but both fields are fragmented and the overall evidence has not been systematically reviewed.
Gonot-Schoupinsky, Freda N. +2 more
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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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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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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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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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, 2020 Ambivalence is the hallmark of Shelley’s poetry, but the ambivalence of Shelley’s often underappreciated wit remains a relatively uncharted area of critical exploration.
Davis, Amanda Blake
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Using Laugh Responses to Defuse Complaints [PDF]
, 2012 This research uses conversation analysis to explore a collection of extracts from telephone calls involving laughter as a response in a sequence characterized by complaining.
Holt, Liz, Holt, Elizabeth
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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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