This article is republished from The Conversation. Laughter is an everyday reminder that we humans are animals. In fact, when recorded laughter is slowed down, listeners can’t tell whether the sound ...

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.

Laughter is an everyday reminder that we humans are animals. In fact, when recorded laughter is slowed down, listeners can’t tell whether the sound is from a person or an animal. We throw our heads ...

A new study in the journal Bioacoustics found that 65 different species of animals have their own form of laughter. Study co-author Sasha Winkler describes the sounds animals make during play.

For many years, psychologists and behavioral biologists agreed that laughter was a unique emotional expression found only in humans. However, as the study of animal emotions expanded this idea was ...

We all have our own unique laugh patterns. Our own signature laugh sounds. It should be no surprise that our primate cousins—chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans—laugh too, and they all do ...

Why do we laugh? The obvious answer is because something is funny. But if we look closer at when and how laughter occurs in ordinary social situations, we see that it's not so simple. Like most ...

Subtle bursts of cheerfulness cascade through the mix, each one a concise, buoyant laugh with crisp, high‑energy transients that exude pure playfulness. The recordings capture the raw spontaneity of a ...