It may ensue from…

Tell a joke Tickling

LAUGHTER

Funny faces Funny pictures

Dress gracefully

Positive emotional states

Joy

Relief

Happiness

Apology

Embarrassment Confusion

Contrary emotional states

NATURE OF LAUGHTER•Children beginning around 4 months of age.

•Baby laughs 300 times a day.

•Laughter is a mechanism everyone has.

•10 minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect.

Scientists have noted the similarity in forms of laughter induced by tickling among various primates.

LAUGHTER AND THE BRAIN

A link between laughter and healthy function of blood vessels, laughter causes dilation of the inner wall of blood vessels, the endothelium, and increases blood flow.

Laughter has been shown to lead to the reduction of stress hormones like cortisol and epinephrine.

Laughter and health

Laughter also increases the number of antibody-producing cells which leads to a stronger immune system.

Laughter is a common response to tickling other common causes are sensations of joy and humor.

Sigmund Freud summarized it in his theory that laughter releases tension and "psychic energy".

She philosopher john morreall in his theory that human laughter may have its biological origins as a kind of shared expression of relief at the passing of danger.

Laughter is a social mechanism

Causes

variations usual laughter most often occur in the first or final note in a sequence so "ho-ha-ha" or "ha-ha-ho" laughs are possible.

laughter can be classified according to the intensity and in accordance with the expressed emotion: joy, relief, confusion or shame nerves

it has also been determined that the eyes become wet in laughter as a reflection of the tear glands.

Types of laughter

NEGATIVE ASPECTS

-Laughter is not always a pleasant experience.

-Excessive laughter can lead to cataplexy.

LAUGHTER IN LITERATURE

The use of humor and laughter in literary works has been studied and analyzed by

many thinkers and writers, from the Ancient Greek philosophers onward.

LAUGHTER FOR THE GREEKSHerodotus For Herodotus, laughers can be distinguished

into three types Those who are innocent of wrongdoing, but

ignorant of their own vulnerability. Those who are mad. Those who are overconfident.

HOBBES "The passion of laughter is nothing else but

sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.“

MODERN LAUGHTER

SCHOPENHAUER

 Devotes the 13th chapter of the first part of his major work, The worlds as Will and representation, to laughter.

NIETZSCHE

“Man uses the comical as a therapy against the restraining jacket of logic

morality and reason.”

BERGSON One of the theories of the essay is that laughter, as a

collective activity, has a social and moral role, it forces people to eliminate their vices.

Finally, thus he defined laughter as an intellectual activity that requires an immediate approach to a comic situation, totally detached from any form of emotion or sensibility.