A Scientist Spent Decades Studying Laughter and Found Something Weird About Humans

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Prior to his death in 2019, psychology professor Robert Provine spent decades studying laughter.

His approach was to observe the phenomenon as an alien who’d just landed on Earth would.

His goal?

To get to the bottom of those strange noises we constantly make and where they come from.

To do it, Provine made recordings […]


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