Apr 15, 2016 · Robert Provine, psychology research professor and professor emeritus, has spoken with several major national and international news outlets over the last few weeks about his research on crying, tickling, yawning, and sneezing.

These studies have produced some unexpected insights into the phenomenon of human laughter - its social nature, the lawful relationship between laughter and speech, gender differences and the biological basis of contagion. One of my first goals was to describe the sonic structure of human laughter. This proved to be more difficult than ! expected.

Sep 21, 2022 · Provine and Fischer's finding of a dominant role for social and emotional context in priming laughter was a critical step in delineating the ways that positive emotions interact with social and cultural factors.

Jan 11, 2019 · Have you ever tried to make yourself laugh – or make yourself stop laughing? According to Robert Provine, professor emeritus of psychology, these two actions are out of our control because laughter is all about our innate ability to connect with one another. In Time magazine’s special edition The Science of Laughter: Our Bodies. Our Minds.

Sep 28, 2020 · In the early 1990s, neuroscientist Robert Provine and colleagues conducted a study to find out what sparked laughter in conversations. Some of the "hilarious" phrases they observed included:...

In 1,200 cases of laughter (Provine, 1993), both sexes laughed a lot, but in cross-gender conversations, females laughed 126% more than their male counterparts, meaning that women do most

Oct 16, 2021 · "For the past ten years, however, Dr. Robert Provine, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has studied this complex and often puzzling phenomenon, and through his research has established himself as the world's leading expert on laughing.

Jan 1, 2000 · Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates various aspects of laughter: (1) its evolution; (2) its role in social relationships; (3) its contagiousness; (4) its ...

Laughter is a simple, stereotyped, innate, human play vocalization that is ideal for the study of vocal evolution. The basic approach of describing the act of laughter and when we do it has revealed a variety of phenomena of social, linguistic, and neurological significance.

Provine, R. R. 1993: Laughter punctuates speech: Linguistic, social and gender contexts of laughter. Ethology 95 , 291–298. Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228–5398, USA.