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 ...

Summary: A comprehensive neurodevelopmental analysis established that laughter is a complex biological engine that directly shapes early brain growth, emotional resilience, and parent-child neural ...

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 ...

This post is part two of a series. In the first post of this blog series, I made the case that the best way of understanding laughter was as a form of nonverbal communication, one that affirms a sense ...

In recent decades, laughter has been researched more and more as part of the connection between body and mind – and the things it does to the body are amazing.

A new study in the journal Bioacoustics found that 65 different species of animals have their own form of laughter. Study co-author Sasha Winkler describes the sounds animals make during play.