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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Yesterday, someone said something that had the whole group of people I was with absolutely belly-laughing. Once the guy got started, he kept going, improvising something somehow funnier with each ...

Do you do a lot of laughing online? How do you express your chortles–with a hearty haha or are your more of a LOLer, yourself? Well now you can tell exactly how your e-laughing compares with the ...