Russian attitudes towards humour and laughter

Edgy laughter: Women and Australian humour

Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..

Neural correlates of laughter and humour.

Although laughter and humour have been constituents of humanity for thousands if not millions of years, their systematic study has begun only recently. Investigations into their neurological correlates remain fragmentary and the following review is a first attempt to collate and evaluate these studies, most of which have been published over the last two decades. By employing the classical metho...

Humour and Laughter in the Public Lectures of Management Gurus

a comparison of iranian and russian athlete students’ motivations and attitudes towards physical activity and sport

individuals participate in sport events with different motivations. one of the elements that influence physical activity participation is a difference in cultures. so, in order to test this claim, 279 iranian and 310 russian students were investigated. they were from guilan, mazandaran, gorgan, and russian universities who attended the third sport olympiad in caspian sea in summer 2004. a resea...

Towards Multimodal Expression of Laughter

Laughter is a strong social signal in human-human and human-machine communication. However, very few attempts to model it exist. In this paper we discuss several challenges regarding the generation of laughs. We focus, more particularly, on two aspects a) modeling laughter with different intensities and b) modeling respiration behavior during laughter. Both of these models combine a data-driven...