{"id":4992,"date":"2011-03-09T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:55:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:55:20","slug":"why-we-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/why-we-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/why-we-laugh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4993\" title=\"why-we-laugh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/why-we-laugh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/why-we-laugh.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/why-we-laugh-340x260.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why It's Impossible to Tickle Yourself\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/why-it-is-nearly-impossible-to-tickle-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why It&#8217;s Nearly Impossible to Tickle Yourself<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contrary to popular belief, most laughter is not associated with humor, but rather stems from non-humor related social interactions.\u00a0 This was discovered from a study covering over 2,000 cases of naturally occurring laughter, almost none of which stemmed from jokes or other such humor devices.\u00a0 Most cases were simple, short \u201cha ha\u2019s\u201d during somewhat normal conversations.\u00a0 These short laughs almost never interrupted speech, but rather occurred during breaks, providing social cues to those around.\u00a0 It is thought that laughter serves a similar function to yawning, namely providing \u201csocial glue\u201d that helps bond people subconsciously.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why It&#8217;s Nearly Impossible to Tickle Yourself Contrary to popular belief, most laughter is not associated with humor, but rather stems from non-humor related social interactions.\u00a0 This was discovered from a study covering over 2,000 cases of naturally occurring laughter, almost none of which stemmed from jokes or other such humor devices.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1283,790],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-laughter","tag-medical-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}