The Social Nature of Laughter

We laugh to show what we laugh to make and maintain social bonds. In laughter can be a really efficient way of just smoothing over a social interaction with somebody. At any one point in time, the person who laughs most in a conversation is the person talking. So i want to talk about the social nature of laughter and the context of laugh tracts. This is an example of the media, in some ways, high jacking the way laughter operates in our brains....