Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
9 Different types of laughter
17
LAUGHTER
According to expert Robert Provine, laughter is specifically a social structure, something that connects humans with one another in a profound way
So what are some of the different types
and reasons for all the laughter?
Etiquette Laughter
People rely on laughter to get along with others, so whether we're with our boss or friends, we tend to laugh at things that just aren't funny.
Contagious Laughter
Provine, the laughter researcher, found in one experiment that nearly half of his 128 undergraduate students giggled on first response to a simulated laugh. And they did this despite knowing the source to be an artificial laugh-simulator.
Nervous Laughter
During times of anxiety, we often laugh in a subconscious attempt to reduce stress and calm down. However, nervous laughter usually just heightens the awkwardness of the situation.
Belly Laughter
Belly laughter is considered the most honest type of laughter. It may also be the hardest type to experience, because we have to find something truly hilarious before we'll let go with the kind of laughter that has us clutching our bellies and gasping for air.
Silent Laughter
This type of laughter is also practiced in laughter yoga and laughter therapy, where it's often called joker's laughter. To try it on your own, freeze your face into a smile like the Joker of Batman fame!
Pigeon Laughter
Pigeon laughter, which is often practiced in laughter therapy or laughter yoga, involves laughing without opening your mouth. By keeping your lips sealed, the laughter produces a humming sound, much like the noises a pigeon makes.
Snorting Laughter
If this is your kind of laughter, you're either blowing air out or sucking it in through the nose when you laugh.
Canned Laughter
Cruel Laughter
"It isn't polite to laugh at others' expense."
HEH HEH HEH HEH
hahahahhaahha oink oink oink!
and so on. ...................!
which gets a second person laughing
and gets one person laughing
Imagine when someone tells a joke
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. AHHH!!! AHAH !! AAHAHHAA
That probably hasn't always stopped you, either. Let's face it: Whether you were a bully in school or the kid getting picked on, you've found yourself breaking this rule at some point.
Canned laughter is real laughter -- it just happens to be laughter taken completely out of one context and placed in another
Though there are many ways to laugh, from giggles to guffaws and from chuckles to cackles, it turns out that we humans laugh for many reasons, some of them odd.
XD
"You're hilarious, Boss! Please promote us!"