Laughter research

In this article by Robert Provine he talks about that there are some things that every human culture over the whole world has in common. Crying, smiling, screaming and laughing are universal communication tools that can be find all over the globe.

If you go to newly discovered tribes in the Amazon basin they laugh the same way as people do in New York, London, Stockholm or Hong Kong do!

As babies we actually start laughing long before we learn how to speak. Thus, we communicate in an inherited world-wide communication language that is known to all humans and brings humans together.

Research also shows that laughter is a message between people and we rarely laugh when we are alone. The same research also shows that laughter is contagious and that we laugh when other people are laughing. If you have listened to any of the laughters submitted on this blog you, of course, know that this is true. This is the reason we have created this blog!