Science topic
Laughter - Science topic
An involuntary expression of merriment and pleasure; it includes the patterned motor responses as well as the inarticulate vocalization.
Questions related to Laughter
I need articles that use experimental design for reducing Fearing laughter Gelotophobia
at college students or others.......
My formula is often humorously both observational apathy and not serious inaction, executed as ,somewhat self therapy, with jokes(which are minimum words before punchlines, delivered and timed well enough for the audience to laugh). Sometimes audiences pick comedians based on how much they relate.
LAUGHTER
Robert Provine says that most laughter is not a response to jokes or other formal attempts at humor. Salvatore Attardo adds that laughter may be caused by all sorts of non-humorous stimuli (tickling, laughing gas, embarrassment) and can be triggered by imitation (watching other people laugh). Giles and Oxford list seven causes of laughter: humorous, social, ignorance, anxiety, derision, apologetic, and tickling. Jodi Eisterhold discusses the “principle of least disruption,” which “enjoins speakers to return to a serious mode as soon as possible.”
Because smiles can sometimes evolve into laughs and laughs can taper off into smiles, some people think that laughter is merely a form of exaggerated smiling. However, smiles are more likely to express feelings of satisfaction or good will, while laughter comes from surprise or a recognition of an incongruity. Furthermore, laughter is basically a public event while smiling is basically a private event. Guiselinde Kuipers says that “to laugh, or to occasion laughter through humor and wit, is to invite those present to come closer.” She says that laughter and humor are like an invitation, in that their aim is to decrease social distance.
Laughter is a social phenomenon. That’s why “getting the giggles” never happens when we are alone. In contrast, people often smile when they are reading or even when they are having private thoughts. Smiling is not contagious, but laughter is contagious.
That’s why radio and television comedy performances often have a laugh track.
Smiling is not contagious, but laughter is contagious. That’s why radio and television comedy performances often have a laugh track. Furthermore, people cannot tickle themselves because the cerebelum in the lower back of the brain somehow sends an interfering message to the part of the brain that controls laughter.
Anthony Chapman did a study in which he compared the actions of a group of children who knew they were being observed with a group who did not know they were being observed.
The children who knew they were being watched laughed four times as often as did those in the other group. However, they smiled only half as much. Anthony Chapman concluded not only that laughter can be good or bad, depending on the situation. But he also concluded that humor is both the cause for laughter, and the result of laughter. That’s why humor and laughter are so closely associated.
Don and Alleen Nilsen’s Humor PowerPoints:
PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND HUMOR
John Morreall says that when laughter is mentioned in the Bible, it is associated with one of three things. In descending order, they are: Hostility, Foolishness, and Joy. For laughter and hostility, consider Psalms 59:4-8 which implores God to “have no mercy on villains and traitors…. But you, O Lord, laugh at them, and deride all the nations.”
For laughter and foolishness, consider Genesis 17:17 when God tells Abraham at age 99 that he and his aged wife Sarah will have a son. Abraham “fell on his face and laughed.” On hearing the news, Sarah also laughed with disbelief, and “when God confronted her, she compounded her foolishness by denying that she had laughed.” When their child was born, they named him Isaac (meaning “He will laugh or rejoice”) (Genesis 18:12-15).
Laughter is again associated with foolishness in a Bible passage which reads: “Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad.” “The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth” (Ecclesiastes 7:3-6). But laughter can also be associated with joy in the Bible as in: “When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongues with shouts of joy” (Psalms 126:2). In the New Testament, Jesus says, “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh” (Luke 6:21).
There are four great religious truths:
Muslims do not recognize Jews as God’s chosen people.
Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world.
Baptists do not recognize each other at Hooters.
Look at this PowerPoint about “Humor in Philosophy and Religion.” Do you know of other examples of humor as it relates to philosophy and religion?
RELIGION AND HUMOR
John Morreall says that when laughter is mentioned in the Bible, it is associated with one of three things. In descending order, they are: Hostility, Foolishness, and Joy. For laughter and hostility, consider Psalms 59:4-8 which implores God to “have no mercy on villains and traitors…. But you, O Lord, laugh at them, and deride all the nations.”
For laughter and foolishness, consider Genesis 17:17 when God tells Abraham at age 99 that he and his aged wife Sarah will have a son. Abraham “fell on his face and laughed.” On hearing the news, Sarah also laughed with disbelief, and “when God confronted her, she compounded her foolishness by denying that she had laughed.” When their child was born, they named him Isaac (meaning “He will laugh or rejoice”) (Genesis 18:12-15).
Laughter is again associated with foolishness in a Bible passage which reads: “Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad.” “The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth” (Ecclesiastes 7:3-6). But laughter can also be associated with joy in the Bible as in: “When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongues with shouts of joy” (Psalms 126:2). In the New Testament, Jesus says, “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh” (Luke 6:21).
There are four great religious truths:
Muslims do not recognize Jews as God’s chosen people.
Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world.
Baptists do not recognize each other at Hooters.
Look at this PowerPoint about “Humor and Religion.” Do you know of other examples of humor and religion?
The reasons for the laughter can be different, not from the aspect of biology, but from the aspect of anthropology, sociology, psychology, politics, humor, cynicism, optimism, morality, non / freedom, hypocrisy ...
Really, why are people laughing?
It is necessary to give a symbolic, laconic, metaphorical ... answer.
Dear Dr. Harun Hadžić
The mere idea that man is the only being on Planet Earth capable of laughing is as old as Aristotle himself [The parts of animals [PA] 3.1.673a8] since the face of the Human Being and possibly the timeless use of masks has the power to be not only a symbolic and suggestive artifact recognized in various cultures from the West to the East and the use of these masks goes back to the intramontable Greek Comedy that already enclosed in itself not only the idea of appearance, of falsehood , of masking and apparent transformation, even assuming a different identity ranging from the Human to the Divine.
Aristotle [335 B.C.-323 B.C.] knew very well that the mask was not only an artificial satirical outfit but also a psychologically expressive and socially powerful means of communication because it was capable of giving free rein to the imagination as well as being very useful in the literary sphere from comedy to tragedy aimed at exposing the so-called inferiority complex or ridiculing the ideology of adversaries, weak points of heroes or specific sectors of power..
p.d. "Laughter is a bodily exercise precious to health" Aristotle
Photography= Phoenician terracotta mask from the 6th century BC. The purpose of such masks are much debated as knowlege of Carthaginian culture and ritual practice is limited. The similarity to later Greek and Roman theatrical masks of Comedy and Tragedy is striking. Mozia [Motya] Sicily]
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It is widely believed that humorous environments help students' learning by relaxing them and easing their stress. However, I would like to know whether laughter really , physically affects brain functions during learning/focusing/ memorizing etc.
Seeking information on the topic
Hello All! I am looking for responses to this article, as there have been very few peer-reviewed articles on this subject matter. The topic is COVID-19 humour, and many examples have been embedded in it. It was written and published late last year, and it is the result of being under quarantine from COVID-19 for over a year now - not the usual kind of article I write, Here is the title and other details:
Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus. Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus. Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, (10), 274-318.
Here is the Open Access link:
My question relates to whether or not this topic is simply too sensitive for many people at present. From my perspective it has been cathartic.
I have provided questions on I hope a great range of topics, but not any so far on one of my great loves-Literature. I know many of you share my love.
This poem is considered the best of Rupert Brooke's limited production, as he died young, like Byron, of fever in war. But what is wrong with this celebrated work?
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke, 1887 - 1915
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Learned from an MS patient that she suffers from the most severe neck pain in the wake of laughing fits.
All I could find written in this respect is that, like many other forms of bodily activities, so also laughter can provoke "paroxysmal MS manifestations".
Could this be due to an escalation of CSF shifts provoked by a repeated alternation of pressures surging up from jugular to intracranial veins on the one hand, and such pushing back from abdominal into epidural spinal veins on the other?
Couldn't this question be answered by real-time MRI studies of CSF dynamics?
I am writing an article about the perception of laughter in different cultures and how it has to be taken into account when working in an intercultural team
According to the Judeo myth, Lilith was an evil woman created before Eve. Unlike Eve, she was created from the same clay from which Adam was created. But she refused to accept Adam’s superiority over her, since she was affronted by her lack of authority and power. She disobeyed God and even accepted to be Satan’s companion, giving birth to his offspring. Lilith was even blamed for man’s downfall from heaven. She was believed to be the incarnated serpent who tempted Eve to convince Adam to eat from the forbidden tree.
No reference has ever been made to the relationship between August Strindberg's "The Stronger" and the story of the Genesis, despite the fact that many allusions in the play prove that the play is obviously a staging of this myth. Miss Y is described as a serpent by Mrs X. Her uncanny laughter, her refusal to marry from an eligible suitor, her role as a femme fatale, the pleasure she finds in ruining the lives of families (if Mrs X's accusations are taken seriously), all reveal that Miss Y is Lilith in the guise of Eve.
Do you agree?
please I need data set for sound or feature of laughter and crying to human to doing my research on it .
any one have data set or known website or any thing else that can I get the data set please help me .
with my best regard
Laughter , mechanism and pathway .
Neurology
The Abrahamic religions were originally formed upon a martial, violent god with a perceptively nasty streak and a tendency towards promoting genocide. There have been developments since and finer impulses have emerged but that nasty god is still there, hovering around like a perplexing bad sore.
Can we not start again and those that require religion to survive life's fraught circumstances or just to have that warm glow that comes from connectiveness with others sit down and devise a better god to worship, one who, at least, celebrates life not death?One who inculcates joy and laughter, not the miseries people often now worship. One genuinely based upon ethics.
As an historian, I particularly deploy their dependence on historical events that never occurred, or are of extremely doubtful provenance, and their added refusal to accept the evidence.
I am interested to commence Laughter Yoga in an inpatient psychiatric setting. I have read articles regarding LY in other settings though not an acute psychiatric unit.
Any information would be much appreciated!
a lot of reactions. One event raises anger for a person or gives rise to laughter for another
If yes, can you provide me some articles? I would like to know about the role of laughter in sociolinguistics. Thank you
A patient with right hemiplegia has pyramidal clonus during laughing. We wonder if laughing may have changed the cortico-spinal influences on spinal stretch reflexes. Would you have an explanation, based on this interesting study?
Comic art has received differing explanations since Aristotle´s "Poetics." Bergson in his essay "Laughter" conceives of comedy as deshumanization of human beings into things or machines. How do you conceive the mechanism of the funny? Who is your favorite comedian or comedienne and what in your opinion makes him or her laughable? If you can post youtubes of examples, that would clarify.
Studies of the effects of laughter treat it as a single entity; e.g. we look at whether laughter has an impact on social relations or on hormones. Does it matter that there may be different forms of laughter? Or will the effects be all alike?
Some people feel the tickling but some won't. Are there any genetic reasons for this? Also, are laughter and tickling linked to any single operon?
