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when we hear a good joke or visualize/see certain acts we start laughing ,what triggers our laughing

2007-05-10 18:20:08 · 8 answers · asked by psokullu 2 in Entertainment & Music Jokes & Riddles

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One of the remarkable things about laughter is that it occurs unconsciously. You don’t decide to do it. While we can consciously inhibit it, we don’t consciously produce laughter.

Very little is known about the specific brain mechanisms responsible for laughter. But we do know that laughter is triggered by many sensations and thoughts, and that it activates many parts of the body.

We also found that most laughter does not follow jokes. Sometimes being satisfied with your performance or by achieving something desired since long, we smile which is also a kind of laugh though mild.

An evolutionary perspective

We believe laughter evolved from the panting behavior of our ancient primate ancestors. Today, if we tickle chimps or gorillas, they don’t laugh “ha ha ha” but exhibit a panting sound. That’s the sound of ape laughter. And it’s the root of human laughter.

Apes laugh in conditions in which human laughter is produced, like tickle, rough and tumble play, and chasing games. Other animals produce vocalizations during play, but they are so different that it’s difficult to equate them with laughter. Rats, for example, produce high-pitch vocalizations during play and when tickled. But it’s very different in sound from human laughter.

When we laugh, we’re often communicating playful intent. So laughter has a bonding function within individuals in a group. It’s often positive, but it can be negative too. There’s a difference between “laughing with” and “laughing at.” People who laugh at others may be trying to force them to conform or casting them out of the group.

No one has actually counted how much people of different ages laugh, but young children probably laugh the most. At ages 5 and 6, we tend to see the most exuberant laughs. Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less. And laughter is associated with play.

We have learned a lot about when and why we laugh, much of it counter-intuitive. Work now underway will tell us more about the brain mechanisms of laughter, how laughter has evolved and why we’re so susceptible to tickling — one of the most enigmatic of human behaviors.

Let us wait for knowing further reasons in the matter.

2007-05-10 18:33:41 · answer #1 · answered by indranath 3 · 0 1

In modern times, the tendency is toward acceptance of incongruity as the most common cause of laughter. Although incongruity-based theories are gaining ground, other schools of thought still hold some favor.

This is the basis of the cognitive model of humor: the joke creates an inconsistency, the sentence appears to be not relevant, and we automatically try to understand what the sentence says, supposes, doesn't say, and implies; if we are successful in solving this 'cognitive riddle', and we find out what is hidden within the sentence, and what is the underlying thought, and we bring foreground what was in the background, and we realize that the surprise wasn't dangerous, we eventually laugh with relief. Otherwise, if the inconsistency is not resolved, there is no laugh, as Mack Sennett pointed out: "when the audience is confused, it doesn't laugh" (this is the one of the basic laws of a comedian, called "exactness"). This explanation is also confirmed by modern neurophysiology

2007-05-10 18:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by PerFecT StrAngEr.. is back 6 · 0 1

One of the remarkable things about laughter is that it occurs unconsciously. You don’t decide to do it. While we can consciously inhibit it, we don’t consciously produce laughter.

Very little is known about the specific brain mechanisms responsible for laughter. But we do know that laughter is triggered by many sensations and thoughts, and that it activates many parts of the body.

We also found that most laughter does not follow jokes. Sometimes being satisfied with your performance or by achieving something desired since long, we smile which is also a kind of laugh though mild.

An evolutionary perspective

We believe laughter evolved from the panting behavior of our ancient primate ancestors. Today, if we tickle chimps or gorillas, they don’t laugh “ha ha ha” but exhibit a panting sound. That’s the sound of ape laughter. And it’s the root of human laughter.

Apes laugh in conditions in which human laughter is produced, like tickle, rough and tumble play, and chasing games. Other animals produce vocalizations during play, but they are so different that it’s difficult to equate them with laughter. Rats, for example, produce high-pitch vocalizations during play and when tickled. But it’s very different in sound from human laughter.

When we laugh, we’re often communicating playful intent. So laughter has a bonding function within individuals in a group. It’s often positive, but it can be negative too. There’s a difference between “laughing with” and “laughing at.” People who laugh at others may be trying to force them to conform or casting them out of the group.

No one has actually counted how much people of different ages laugh, but young children probably laugh the most. At ages 5 and 6, we tend to see the most exuberant laughs. Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less. And laughter is associated with play.

We have learned a lot about when and why we laugh, much of it counter-intuitive. Work now underway will tell us more about the brain mechanisms of laughter, how laughter has evolved and why we’re so susceptible to tickling — one of the most enigmatic of human behaviors.

Let us wait for knowing further reasons in the matter





































































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2007-05-10 18:36:46 · answer #3 · answered by alanna 3 · 0 1

People laugh because of the discomfort or folly of other people and/or themselves, or quoting the source below:

1. Things are humorous when they make a person feel superior.

2. Things become humorous when there is incongruity, or the juxtaposition of things not normally associated with one another.

3. Humour occurs when tension is released.

UPDATE: Indranath and Allana forgot to include their source as http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077386/

And Game Bug's source was http://www.crystalinks.com/laughing_yogi.html

Thumbs down for plagiarism.

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2016-10-04 21:27:03 · answer #5 · answered by barnell 4 · 0 0

sense of humour

2007-05-10 18:27:29 · answer #6 · answered by syamala v 2 · 0 0

irony, truth

2007-05-10 18:24:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2007-05-10 18:33:37 · answer #8 · answered by baba 5 · 0 0

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