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Laughter

Laughter is a typically pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical, usually audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system. It is a response to certain external or internal stimuli. Laughter can rise from such stimuli as being tickled, or from humorous stories, imagery, videos or thoughts.…

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related to Further reading · 193
Laughter → Acoustical Society, Aeon Essays, Aeon Magazine, Affective Components, AK, Allcock, America, American Scientist, Anatomy, Antony, Aping, Applications, April, Archived, Bachorowski, Bali, Bard, Behavior, Behnke EJ, Bloomington
related to External links · 11
Laughter → Aeon, Did, Gelotology, Human Thing, Is Laughter, Laughter Archived, Origins, Radio Lab, University, Washington, Wayback Machine
related to Health · 11
Laughter → Drs, It, Maryland, Maryland Medical Center, Michael Miller, Other, Stanford, T-cells, University, When, William Fry
related to Research and philosophy · 10
Laughter → An Essay, Ancient Greek, Comic, Greek, Henri Bergson's Laughter, Iliad, Le, Meaning, Odyssey, The
related to Structure and anatomy · 10
Laughter → In, It, Laughed, Many, Normal, Not, Recent, The, This, While
related to Brain · 7
Laughter → American Medical Association, Journal, Neurophysiology, Scientists, The, The December, This
related to Nature · 7
Laughter → Babies, Children, However, It, One, Robert Provine, There
related to Negative aspects · 6
Laughter → Excessive, Parkinson's, Some, These, Those, Unpleasant
related to Communication · 5
Laughter → By, Contrary, Far, More, These
is a · 4
Laughter → mechanism everyone has, part of human behavior regulated by the brain, social mechanism, typically pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical

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humor laugh human also therapy study used one laughing others joy may social positive emotional isbn causes research people theory

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Laughtercausesthe dilatation of the inner lining of blood vessels0.90text
Laughteris atypically pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical0.90text
Laughteris apart of human behavior regulated by the brain0.90text
Laughteris amechanism everyone has0.90text
Laughteris asocial mechanism0.90text
Laughterpart ofuniversal human vocabulary0.85text
embarrassmentinstance ofit may be caused by contrary emotional states0.80text
surpriseinstance ofit may be caused by contrary emotional states0.80text
or confusion such as nervous laughter or courtesy laughinstance ofit may be caused by contrary emotional states0.80text
wrestlinginstance ofexpress laughter-like vocalizations in response to physical contact0.80text
play chasing or tickling.Laughter is a part of human behavior regulated by the braininstance ofexpress laughter-like vocalizations in response to physical contact0.80text
helping humans clarify their intentions in social interactioninstance ofexpress laughter-like vocalizations in response to physical contact0.80text

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