====== Laughter ======

>...laughter is more often prompted by banal comments than amusing jokes. That makes it even more mysterious.”\\ \\ Source :  [[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327200.800-10-mysteries-of-you-laughter.html|New Scientist]] August 2009.

Laughter (or something very similar) has been observed in various different species – including chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans, rats, mice and dogs. Although it’s known that laughter can be induced by various situations, joy, play, relief, and humour etc - the biological function of laughter in humans (if there is one) is not known.

The evolutionary reasons for the emergence of laughter are also unknown, see : [[content:psychology:general:humour_evolution]]

//Note:// One of the laughter inducing stimuli – humour – has its own academic journal.  [[https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/humr/humr-overview.xml|The International Journal of Humor Research]]

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