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Two girls laughing. Gelotology (from the Greek γέλως gelos "laughter") [1] is the study of laughter and its effects on the body, from a psychological and physiological perspective. Its proponents often advocate induction of laughter on therapeutic grounds in alternative medicine. The field of study was pioneered by William F. Fry of ...
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A set of triplets who refuse to sleep are cracking each other up — and TikTok is laughing along. “They feed off each other so when one is laughing, so are the others,” Julia Platsman, a ...
A Minnesota dad has the internet clucking with laughter. In a recent TikTok video, Dillion Michael White recalled coming home to find his wife, Suzanne, in the kitchen consoling their visibly ...
The Laughing Baby is a YouTube viral video of a baby laughing. The video became an internet phenomenon and has had a total of over 100 million views across multiple uploads. . Originally uploaded by a Swedish man under the pseudonym of spacelord72, and later re-uploaded and popularized by another user known as BlackOleg, the "Laughing Baby" is one of the few internet memes that have entered ...
One study analyzed sounds made by human babies and bonobos when tickled. It found that although the bonobo's laugh was a higher frequency, the laugh followed the same sonographic pattern as human babies and included similar facial expressions. Humans and chimpanzees share similar ticklish areas of the body such as the armpits and belly. [6]
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Katagelasticists actively seek and establish situations in which they can laugh at others (at the expense of these people). There is a broad variety of things that katagelasticists would do—starting from harmless pranks or word plays to truly embarrassing and even harmful, mean-spirited jokes.