Taking Laughter Seriously

This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg - Podcast autorstwa Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery - Piątki

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Giggles, guffaws, or belly laughs -- whenever we crack up, we're communicating more than we realize. Laughter, says Dr. Sophie Scott, a neuroscientist at University College London as well as a standup comic, is pretty complicated. It's a way of expressing group membership and affection (as long as nobody is laughing AT you) and involves a physical reaction as well as an emotional one. Scott can make you laugh -- and then explain why you did!

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