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 ...

There's nothing quite like that yelp of laughter you emit when being tickled. Now, experts have confirmed that shrieks induced by tickling really do sound recognisably different to other types of ...

Source: Tokyo National Museum / Public Domain This is a public service announcement! Even during the most fraught times, we are allowed to laugh. Not only can we give ourselves permission to laugh, ...