When I think about the happiest moments from my childhood, I’ll often reflect on the times my sister and I played “school” (as the younger sibling, I was always the student…), when my best friend and I played with Barbies and dress-up clothes in her basement, or when we played hide-and-seek with other kids in […]
Tag Archives: laughter
August
23
The Neuroscience of Laughter
posted by Susan Lubejko
Think back to the last time you had a real, hearty laugh: mouth in a wide smile, eyes crinkled and tearing, breath leaving your body in short bursts if you could get any breath out at all. For humans, there are few more pleasurable experiences or greater expressions of joy as laughter. We use laughter […]
September
25
Why we LOL
posted by Rose Hendricks
Humor is a difficult concept to articulate. We might not always know why things are funny, but we do tend to know what kinds of things are funny. It comes in many forms, and general consensus is that things like videos of treadmill mishaps, cynical comics and corny puns are funny. Luckily, there’s a pretty large […]
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