Laughter a scientific investigation / [[Book] :]
Laughter.
Robert R. Provine.
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2001.
- ix, 258 p. : ill., music ; 21 cm.
Previously published: New York : Viking, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-246) and index.
Laughter: an introduction -- The road not taken: philosophical and theoretical approaches to laughter -- Natural history of laughter -- Cracking the laugh code: from sound lab to opera studio -- Chimpanzee laughter, speech evolution, and paleohumorology -- Ticklish relationships -- Contagious laughter and the brain -- Abnormal and inappropriate laughter: clinical perspectives -- Laughing your way to health.