(THE CONVERSATION) Amusement and pleasant surprises — and the laughter they can trigger — add texture to the fabric of daily life. Those giggles and guffaws can seem like just silly throwaways. But ...

It's a scenario many of us experienced before the COVID-19 pandemic: you're working from home, and you dial in to a conference call for the morning meeting. Everyone is cheerfully talking around the ...

Psychologists have long pondered the meaning of laughter, and more recently, they've asked what it tells us about the relationship between people. GREG BRYANT: Can people make accurate judgments about ...

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Jeannine Luby, of Laugh to Live, uses laughter yoga and presentations filled with humor to offer uplifting and restorative programs to people of all ages and abilities. She aims to provide people with ...

For Honey Cohn Parker, AS85, her background in comedy started on a whim a few years after graduating from the visual communications program at UD. She had been living in Hoboken with a group of other ...

A new study showed that laughter is a better indicator in determining friendships than even speech. Volunteers were able to pinpoint groups of friends versus strangers by listening to their laughter.