Humour and laughter
Humour and laughter in children with autism spectrum disorders
... their humour with adults rather than other children, while other children preferred a particular family ...in laughter-related interactions may have been influenced by the people around them during the ...
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Humour and laughter in meetings: influence, decision-making and the emergence of leadership
... male humour is more centred around the telling of jokes, while females’ laughter ‘emerges as the result of humorous stories, or of bantering or teasing among participants, or when speakers pick up a point ...
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'Feck off!' Exploring the relationship between impoliteness, laughter and humour in the British-Irish sitcomes Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd
... 118 language norms, and it is this that helps the use of the word to be humorous. In Chapter 6, I will explore the audience laughter response to taboo words. I noted above that though they were not included in ...
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Neural correlates of laughter and humour
... Although laughter and humour have been constituents of humanity for thousands if not millions of years, their systematic study has begun only ...(pathological) laughter have been determined and ...
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On laughter
... of laughter can reintegrate the individual with others who are capable of achieving the same perspective in the social setting, and the resultant deviant, Existential sense of humour, can also reintegrate ...
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Pakistani Shades of Humour: Finer Nuances in Patras’ Humour
... ―some say that the climate of India is very bad, I mean, that, here you find a lot of problems . . . Do you understand? (Pause). There are problems. . . (91). ―Oh Yes! The matter of fact is that two bulls used to live ...
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Holiness and humour
... of humour, humour can express and further holiness in several ...ways. Humour serves holiness in religious satire; it can also communicate the self-transcendent perspective of holy women and ...men. ...
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LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE
... Background Laughter is known to have many positive physiological effects including muscle relaxation, reduction of hormones associated with the stress response, positive immune system changes, and pain reduction, ...
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Laughing away the pain: A narrative review of humour, sense of humour and pain
... To sum up, it can be asserted that most studies reported a significant increase in pain tolerance after viewing a comedy clip, and not only in experimental conditions but also in real clinical settings (Lee & ...
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Taking Humour Seriously
... and humour in the Renaissance and neo-classical periods tell us? From this point onwards in the history of our civilisation, the line which separates mirth creation from other elements of our culture is drawn in a ...
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No hugging, no learning: The limitations of humour
... elicited laughter, indicating that amusement may have been found in the violation of a statistical ...saw humour in the way they were tricked; they radically underestimated or exceeded the effort required ...
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The value of positive humour in the workplace
... attribute, humour tended to be ignored, or downplayed, as a useful organisational tool (Brief, ...Workplace humour attracted criticism as being potentially offensive, counter-productive and a waste of ...
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Time for laughter
... on laughter, exploring the extent to which laughter can be shown to signal the structural unfolding of conversation and whether laughter may be used in the signaling of topic ...between ...
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Tourism and Humour
... The issue of a sense of humour is important to tourism studies because the variability in responses to humour are likely to be influential when dealing with tourist market seg- me[r] ...
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A Philosophy of Humour
... Support for ToH can be found in the etymology of the word ‘humour’: In Ancient Greece, Hippocrates thought that health was determined by the balance of four bodily fluids, or ‘humours’. The idea that unhealthy ...
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Automatic Phonetic Transcription of Laughter and its Application to Laughter Synthesis
... train laughter synthesis. This opens interesting perspectives for laughter synthesis, as new voices can be trained and evaluated ...new laughter voices from even larger quantities of data (recordings ...
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Recognizing Humour using Word Associations and Humour Anchor Extraction
... overall humour prediction model and the HA extractor’s internal humour prediction ...trained humour prediction model, with the HAs being the combination of HA candidates which causes the largest drop ...
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Laughter as a 'serious business' : clients’ laughter in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome
... of laughter in medical contexts ...their laughter is not reciprocated by ...the laughter initiated by nurses in comparison to the clients’-initiated laughter may be explained by the very ...
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Laughter is the Best Medicine
... Here are two examples of people who took everyday problems and turned them around through laughter and play: Roy, a semi-retired businessman, was excited to finally have time to devote to golf, his favorite sport. ...
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The psychology of laughter and the comic
... is usually contracted during the years of puberty or early adolescence, when the voice of authority banning euoh conversation is particularly loud, and the spirit[r] ...
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