Why Do We Laugh?

In this short documentary for The Atlantic, longtime laughter researcher Robert Provine tells filmmaker Sam-Price Waldman about some of his most notable observations and conclusions.

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It also features one of the more convincing fake laughs I've heard in some time (like smiling, it's hard to forge a good guffaw), delivered with virtuosic gusto by Provine, himself.

[The Atlantic]

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