even though they reported feeling the same level of amusement. human laughter is also generally louder than the play vocalizations of most animals. some scientists speculate that this is because our laughter functions not only as a signal between individuals...
In particular, it is argued that physiological explanations of laughter need to be supplemented by attention to "the whole human being," the focus of philosophical anthropology since Herder. Plessner was one of the principal figures in the movement of philosophical anthropology in Germany in the ...
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.——Albert Einstein •【爱因斯坦:当一个人把自己当成真理和知识的法官时,他将被上帝的嘲笑毁灭。】 • In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a re...
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I spent the last couple of years looking at the science of human motivation, particularly the dynamics of extrinsic motivators and intrinsic motivators. And I'm telling you, it's not even close. If you look at the science, there is a mismatch between what science knows and what business ...
"Joyful laughter immediately produces the same brain wave frequencies experienced by people in a true meditative state," says Lee Berk, lead researcher of the study and associate professor of pathology and human anatomy at Loma Linda University. ...
Very good. So, as we were saying: lots of science fiction is negative. Finn Yes, there's a word to describe the kind of future world which often appears in science fiction:dystopian. The noun 'dystopia' means an imagined p...
When scientists set out to explore the roots of human laughter, some apes(类人猿) were just tickled(胳肢)to help. That’s how researchers made a variety of apes and some human babies laugh. After analyzing the sounds, they concluded that people and great apes inherited laughter from a share...
-they have been causing quite stir.People have been surprised to see evidence that Victorians had fun and could,and did,laugh.They are noting that the Victorians suddenly seem to become more human as the hundred-or-so years that separate us fade away through our common experience of laughter...