1. It may ensue from…
Tell a joke Tickling
LAUGHTER

2. Funny faces Funny pictures
Dress gracefully

3. Positive emotional states
Joy
Relief
Happiness

4. Apology
Embarrassment Confusion
Contrary emotional states

5. •Children beginning
around 4 months of age.
•Baby laughs 300 times a
day.
•Laughter is a mechanism
everyone has.
•10 minutes of genuine
belly laughter had an
anesthetic effect.

6. Scientists have
noted the similarity
in forms of laughter
induced by tickling
among various
primates.

8. Laughter has been shown to lead to the
reduction of stress hormones like
cortisol and epinephrine.
Laughter and health
Laughter also increases the number
of antibody-producing cells which
leads to a stronger immune system.

9. Sigmund Freud summarized it in his
theory that laughter releases tension
and "psychic energy".
She philosopher john morreall in his
theory that human laughter may
have its biological origins as a kind
of shared expression of relief at the
passing of danger.
Laughter is a social mechanism
Causes

10. laughter can be classified according
to the intensity and in accordance
with the expressed emotion:
joy, relief, confusion or shame nerves
it has also been determined
that the eyes become wet in
laughter as a reflection of the
tear glands.
Types of laughter

11. -Laughter is not always a pleasant
experience.
-Excessive laughter can lead to
cataplexy.

12. The use of humor and laughter in literary works
has been studied and analyzed by many thinkers
and writers, from the Ancient Greek
philosophers onward.

13. Herodotus
 For Herodotus, laughers can be distinguished into
three types
 Those who are innocent of wrongdoing, but
ignorant of their own vulnerability.
 Those who are mad.
 Those who are overconfident.

14.  "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden
glory arising from sudden conception of some
eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the
infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.“
MODERN LAUGHTER

15.  Devotes the 13th chapter of the first part of
his major work, The worlds as Will and
representation, to laughter.

16.  “Man uses the comical as a therapy against
the restraining jacket of logic morality and
reason.”

17.  One of the theories of the essay is that laughter, as a
collective activity, has a social and moral role, it forces
people to eliminate their vices.
 Finally, thus he defined laughter as an intellectual activity
that requires an immediate approach to a comic
situation, totally detached from any form of emotion or
sensibility.