Ever intrigued by the concept of laughter as alliance and power, I was interested to read this recent study that showed babies can detect laughter between fr...

As part of an ongoing series of blog articles, the role of laughter appears once again in an interesting article in the Conversation. It reviews the researc...

Few things can delight an adult more easily than the uninhibited, effervescent laughter of a baby. Yet baby laughter, a new study shows, differs from adult l...

Yesterday I was discussing laughter and alliances with substance misuse teams in Dorset. when this research came through on laughter and relationships. It sh...

Perhaps nothing illustrates my general thesis that laughter is not about happiness but power more than the Dad Joke. The cheesy often pun-based gags that fa...

Smiling does not necessarily indicate that we are happy, according to new research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). It is widely believed that ...

For those who have attended lectures or training with me will know, I am very interested in laughter as an emotion. Particularly how laughter is a fairly da...

More intriguing research on laughter. As I have written in previous posts, people are often struck by descriptions of laughter as a form of social bonding a...

In lectures regarding the functions of different human emotions, the topic that interests most participants is when I discuss the role of laughter as a form ...