73 - Why do we laugh?
Two Shrinks Pod
English - October 02, 2021 04:16 - 1 hour - 129 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Health & Fitness Medicine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we’re returning to an everyday psychology topic and pondering why we laugh. In classic Two Shrinks style, we talk through four pieces of research: preschoolers laughing with their friends, personality and laughter, ridicule in family and funeral workers’ use of laughter.
As always we finish up with things we came across: Amy freaks out about robot-human interaction and Hunter delights in a letter to the editor.
Research:
Social Facilitation of Laughter and Smiles in Preschool Children
Do extraverts ‘like to laugh’︁?: An analysis of the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ)
I Nearly Died Laughing: Humor in Funeral Industry Operators
TWCA:
Robot Humor: How Self-irony and Schadenfreude Influence People's Rating of Robot Likability
Designing Social Interactions with a Humorous Robot Photographer
Hunter’s book recommendation: In Moonland by Miles Allinson