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Laughter and culture | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal ...

We highlight how important questions regarding human vocal communication across cultures can be addressed through the examination of spontaneous and volitional ...

Humour across cultures: no laughing matter - Adamah Media •

Humour has been associated for centuries with group dynamics. One can laugh with peers as a way to bond and feel like an insider: it's known as affiliative ...

Laughing Histories: Historian's book chronicles the evolution of ...

The early modern era is an important one in the history of laughter, according to Wiltenburg, a scholar of the social and cultural history of ...

Culture of popular laughter - Wikipedia

Culture of popular laughter ... The "culture of popular laughter" is a cultural-historical term coined by the literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his book Rabelais ...

Is humor being specific to a culture/language a myth? - Reddit

Humour doesn't really depend on a language, it depends on a culture. All countries have racist jokes, but jokes humiliating black people would ...

Why laughter is different in different countries/cultures - ResearchGate

Laughter is a form of human emotion, which may vary from group to group , individual to individual depending upon varied situations and of course culture.

Culture Shocks: Humour across cultures - LEAP London

Humour is an intensely human habit. It's our way of showing affection, of breaking boundaries, and of sharing in common belief systems.

Cultural Differences in Humor Perception, Usage, and Implications

The aim of this article provides a review of how culture influences humor perception and usage as well as the relationship between humor and psychological well ...

Leading with Humor - Harvard Business Review

... Laughter relieves stress and boredom, boosts ... While both books note that humor emphasizing superiority is universally effective (every culture ...

Your Laughter Can Reveal Your Cultural Background

Listeners could detect whether a laughing person is from their own or another cultural group by only hearing a brief laughter segment.

The Culture, Politics, and Significance of Laughter

Laughter can help create cultural change. It is a good sign for equality and democracy that Harris and Walz can laugh with each other and laugh at Trump and ...

Ability to Identify Genuine Laughter Transcends Culture

Previous research by Bryant and others has found that real, spontaneous laughter has certain identifying qualities. During spontaneous laughter, ...

The Power of Laughter in Corporate Culture - LinkedIn

Laughter is a stress remedy, a corporate misery relief that enlivens company culture – why isn't there more of it in the workplace?

Cultural Differences in How People Deal with Ridicule and Laughter

The PhoPhiKat-45 measures three dispositions toward ridicule and laughter, including gelotophobia (i.e., the fear of being laughed at), ...

Recognition of emotions in German laughter across cultures - Nature

121 spontaneously emitted German laughter sounds according to the laughter type, ie, joyful, schadenfreude, and tickling laughter.

(PDF) Laughter and culture - ResearchGate

Our study demonstrates that individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds share a universal understanding of laughter as a positive emotional expression, which ...

Is there a language of laughter? - BBC Science Focus

When it comes to cultural differences, studies show that people from more collectivist cultures, such as China, are less likely to use ...

A Cultural History of Laughter - 1st Edition - Abílio Almeida - Routledge

Is laughter a sin? Or is it man's best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media?

Cultural and Artistic Transformations of the Culture of Laughter ...

Abstract. The relevance of the issue is that humour plays an important role in many areas of modern cultural life. Considering this, it is ...

Can we tell someone's cultural group from the way they laugh?

Listeners could detect whether a laughing person is from their own or another cultural group by only hearing a brief laughter segment.