A laugh can feel spontaneous, messy, almost impossible to pin down. But deep inside that burst of sound, researchers found a ...

Until now, the brain regions underlying laughter were not well understood, in part because it's hard to elicit genuine ...

In the realm of physics, it would seem that cause always precedes effect. In the realm of human behavior, and for our laughter in particular, things appear to be much more flexible. Anticipatory ...

This blog series takes a particular view of laughter, one that I believe helps explain why, among other things, it’s expressed in amazingly diverse circumstances. In advancing the Mutual Vulnerability ...

The study found that the laughter of humans and great apes follows similar rhythms.

From “Ha!” to “LOL,” laughter in text can take on a number of forms and meanings. 'Laughter' via www.shutterstock.com Laughter is uniquely human. Sometimes deliberate, sometimes uncontrollable, we ...

Laughing is something most people do every day, but chances are we don’t really understand why we do it. "Laughter is one of a series of in-born human behaviors, along with things like coughing and ...

When you hear someone laugh behind you, you probably picture them on the phone or with a friend – smiling and experiencing a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Chances are just the sound of the laughter ...

Robert R. Provine, a neuroscientist who brought scientific rigor to the study of laughter, yawns, hiccups and other universal human behaviors that had previously gone largely unexplored, died Oct. 17 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. Intuitively we know that laughter is one of the best tools we have for ...