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Fight or Flight – or Laughter
In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Comic Relief. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 27–39 (2009-09-04)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: Humor and Disengagement Humor as Play Laughter as a Play Signal.
fight or flight – or laughter and psychology of humor humor and disengagement humorous amusement as distinguished from laughter fight‐or‐flight responses ‐ getting hurt or losing something we value emotions and promoting individual, group and species survival amusement and standard emotions and their dissimilarities Bergson's Qui sent, pleure Qui pense, rit Horace Walpole's “this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel” humor as play ‐ laughter and amusement laughter as play signal and analyzing humor as a kind of play
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