Are they laughing at you or laughing with you? Your brain can tell the difference. Curious about how different types of laughter — mocking, joyful or ticklish — are understood, researchers led by Dirk ...

Human laughter may trace its evolutionary beginnings to vocalizations made during play. This type of "laughing" is found in ...

A type of laughter that often gets a bad rep is technically called superiority laughter, where you laugh at someone out of a sense of relief that you are not that person in that situation. When I tell ...

Some laughs warm the cockles of one’s heart, while others scare with their sinister tones. More than 95% of conversations contain laughter. People laugh for various reasons: to express amusement, ...

The way people laugh when tickled is “uniquely different” from other laughter such as when hearing a joke, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam say both machines and ...