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Laughter: A Scientific Investigation Paperback - 2001
by Robert R. Provine
Summary
Do men and women laugh at the same things?
Is laughter contagious?
Has anyone ever really died laughing?
Is laughing good for your health?
Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.
Is laughter contagious?
Has anyone ever really died laughing?
Is laughing good for your health?
Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.
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In laughter we emit sounds and express emotions that come from deep within our biologic being-grunts and cackles from our animal unconscious.
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- Title Laughter: A Scientific Investigation
- Author Robert R. Provine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-12-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780141002255 / 0141002255
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.42 x 0.59 in (20.17 x 13.77 x 1.50 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Laughter - Psychological aspects, Laughter
- Dewey Decimal Code 152.4
Media reviews
"[A] well-written, often amusing and always fascinating exposé." Scientific American
Citations
- Kliatt, 07/01/2002, Page 45
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