So why is laughter so hard to control? Research suggests that there are two kinds of laughs: helpless, involuntary laughter ...

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You know the feeling (hopefully!): Something silly sets you off – a movie, a joke, or maybe someone near you slips and falls – and you burst into laughter. It feels good to a laugh. And since the ...

In a current documentary, the Pope says that people need to learn to laugh more. Is that true? Laughing at yourself is very old advice from personality psychology. Allport was probably the first ...

Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh. The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles —“oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha”— soon ripples into genuine ...

I haven't ready the study, but I think there's a flaw in the methodology. It would appear the researchers are using the friendship relationship as the standard for measuring authentic laughter, but ...