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Matt & Seamus Coughlin WASTE 5 Hours | Ep. 402

Pints With Aquinas

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The Role of Humor in the Social Functions of Happiness

Comedy is something that has been studied for quite some time because it's a somewhat mysterious phenomena yeah. There are different theories about comedy in the scientific community and I was surprised to watch videos of foxes being tickled and the foxes sound like humans when they laugh. So laughter is something that crosses the species barrier and that would indicate that it's number one built into our nature and number two that it has an important function with other species.

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