Keyword

laughter

Description: An audible or visible human expression associated with amusement, social interaction, and emotional response.

Primary topic: Humor Studies and Applications (38%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q170579

OpenAlex ID: keywords/laughter

Structures of Social Action

1985 · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 4,171

On the Postcolony

2019 · Achille Mbembe · University of California Press eBooks · 2,721

The Laugh of the Medusa

1976 · Hélène Cixous, Keith Cohen, et al. · Signs · 2,289

On the Postcolony

2001 · Achille Mbembé · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1,748

The psychology of humor: an integrative approach

2008 · Martin, Rod A., Ford, Thomas E. · Choice Reviews Online · 1,682

Sweet Anticipation

2006 · David Huron · The MIT Press eBooks · 1,356

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

1986 · Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1,251

Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour

2005 · Michael Billig · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · 1,140

Social learning in animals : the roots of culture

1996 · Cecilia Heyes, Bennett G. Galef · 949

Music Structure and Emotional Response: Some Empirical Findings

1991 · John A. Sloboda · Psychology of Music · 864

Laughter out of place: race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown

2004 · Choice Reviews Online · 825

Laughter; An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

1912 · E. B. T., H. Bergson, et al. · The American Journal of Psychology · 815

Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations

2010 · Disa A. Sauter, Frank Eisner, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 790

On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles

1985 · Gail Jefferson · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 781

A technique for inviting laughter and its subsequent acceptance/declination

1979 · Gail Jefferson · 726

Humor, its origin and development

1979 · Paul E. McGhee · 660

Benign Violations

2010 · A. Peter McGraw, Caleb Warren · Psychological Science · 643

Laughter in Interaction

2003 · Phillip Glenn · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 618

The Philosophy of laughter and humor

1987 · John Morreall · State University of New York Press eBooks · 615

Humor, laughter, and physical health: Methodological issues and research findings.

2001 · Rod A. Martin · Psychological Bulletin · 605

The Evolution and Functions of Laughter and Humor: a Synthetic Approach

2005 · Matthew Gervais, David Sloan Wilson · The Quarterly Review of Biology · 584

The pragmatics of humor support

2001 · Jennifer Hay · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research · 562

6 Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy

1987 · Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks, et al. · Multilingual Matters eBooks · 559

Taking Laughter Seriously.

1984 · H. E. Baber, John Donnelly, et al. · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · 530

Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology

2006 · 522

Works count: 26,340

Citation count: 123,900