Laughter in sentence

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So is this involuntary laughter or more voluntary laughter?

No, that was helpless laughter, and in fact, to record that, all they had to do was record me watching one of my friends listening to something I knew she wanted to laugh at, and I just started doing this.

What you find is that people are good at telling the difference between real and posed laughter.

Chimpanzees laugh differently if they're being tickled than if they're playing with each other, and we might be seeing something like that here, involuntary laughter, tickling laughter, being different from social laughter.

Also, you start to get these sort of contractions and weird whistling sounds, all of which mean that real laughter is extremely easy, or feels extremely easy to spot.

In contrast, posed laughter, we might think it sounds a bit fake.

So, for example, you find nasality in posed laughter, that kind of "ha ha ha ha ha" sound that you never get, you could not do, if you were laughing involuntarily.

We took it into the scanner to see how brains respond when you hear laughter.

We didn't tell them it was a study on laughter.

Nonetheless, when you hear real laughter and when you hear posed laughter, the brains are responding completely differently, significantly differently.

Now, we've had the opportunity to look at how people hear real and posed laughter across the age range.

You don't understand laughter fully by the time you hit puberty.

You don't understand laughter fully by the time your brain has matured at the end of your teens.

You're learning about laughter throughout your entire early adult life.

If we turn the question around and now say not, what does the laughter sound like in terms of being real or posed, but we say, how much does this laughter make you want to laugh, how contagious is this laughter to you, we see a different profile.

And here, the younger you are, the more you want to join in when you hear laughter.

Now, either we're all just becoming really grumpy as we get older, or it may mean that as you understand laughter better, and you are getting better at doing that, you need more than just hearing people laugh to want to laugh.

So we've got a very interesting behavior about which a lot of our lay assumptions are incorrect, but I'm coming to see that actually there's even more to laughter than it's an important social emotion we should look at, because it turns out people are phenomenally nuanced in terms of how we use laughter.

What he finds is that the couples who manage that feeling of stress with laughter, positive emotions like laughter, not only immediately become less stressed, they can see them physically feeling better, they're dealing with this unpleasant situation better together, they are also the couples that report high levels of satisfaction in their relationship and they stay together for longer.

So in fact, when you look at close relationships, laughter is a phenomenally useful index of how people are regulating their emotions together.

I think this is probably going to be a characteristic of close emotional relationships such as you might have with friends, which explains my next clip, which is of a YouTube video of some young men in the former East Germany on making a video to promote their heavy metal band, and it's extremely macho, and the mood is very serious, and I want you to notice what happens in terms of laughter when things go wrong and how quickly that happens, and how that changes the mood.

The fact that the laughter works, it gets him from a painful, embarrassing, difficult situation, into a funny situation, into what we're actually enjoying there, and I think that's a really interesting use, and it's actually happening all the time.

In other words, when it comes to laughter, you and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals.

We hid behind cars, running through the darkness that lay between the streetlights, boundless laughter ubiquitous across the pavement.

It was done When the benediction had been sung Firelight gently woke us from our golden night My surprise I can turn to see your open eyes And I know You are alive I know that smile Nothing more In the after There is waking from your sleep And your lover Is the only face you see We are after Ever after There is laughter Afterneath The war Nobody ever even asked what for Up above Nothing matters but the ones you love So get out with me Now you've got enough with me Just the two of us you see And nothing more In the after There is waking from your sleep And your lover Is the only face you see We are after Ever after There is laughter Afterneath Oh, we after Ever after There is laughter Afterneath Oh Oh Oh Oh Thank you.

(Groaning, laughter) So this is a real human brain.

Your friend doubles over with laughter and says, "It's so ridiculous!

Scrappers know that humor gets you through the tough times, and laughter helps you change your perspective.

A healthy diet, avoiding tobacco use, staying fit, and enjoying plenty of sleep and lots of laughter all go a long way in making sure your body's most important muscle keeps on beating.

It's meant to generate a connection and laughter.

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