2: Laughter
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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The Importance of Humour
Listnical Claire asks whether everyone is able to access the humour. Richard Wiseman: I don't know what has a sense of humour. Normally what you get is variations on what makes them laugh. Some people like the superiority thing, laughing at others makes you feel good. If you've got lots of anxieties and worries, the Freudian thing makes you laugh. Sometimes people who don't laugh any of those things because they're all primarily verbal, slapstick, will kill themselves laughing at that. It's normally not that they don't have any sense of humour... They just might not share your sense of humor.
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