Articles for tag: happiness science, human behavior, Laughter, Psychology of joy

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Why Do We Laugh? The Science of Joy

Suhail Ahmed

  If you asked a room full of people why they laugh, most would say it’s because something is funny. Neuroscientists, however, would gently disagree. Laughter, it turns out, is less about punchlines and more about survival, social glue, and the brain’s constant work of predicting the world. Scientists are now mapping laughter across neural ...