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Why Do We Laugh When Someone Falls?

2013-05-21

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Why Do We Laugh When Someone Falls

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ask-the-brains-why-do-we-laugh

http://phys.org/news/2011-02-falls.html

Science Of Comedy

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/formula-for-funny.htm

Mirthful Laughter

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2814549/

Laughter: The Best Medicine?

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/7422/laughter.pdf

Laughter Benefits Vascular Health

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110828101806.htm

Mirror Neurons

http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct05/mirror.aspx

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