ANGLOPHONE NOVELISTS describing amusement are laughing all the way to the bank. Depending on context, characters can chortle, chuckle, titter, hoot, giggle, snigger, howl or guffaw. This richness of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So why is laughter so hard to control? Research suggests that there are two kinds of laughs: helpless, involuntary laughter ...