Laughter
Subtitle: a scientific investigation
By: Robert R. Provine.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Laughter -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Previously published: New York : Viking, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Laughter: an introduction; title: The road not taken: philosophical and theoretical approaches to laughter; title: Natural history of laughter; title: Cracking the laugh code: from sound lab to opera studio; title: Chimpanzee laughter, speech evolution, and paleohumorology; title: Ticklish relationships; title: Contagious laughter and the brain; title: Abnormal and inappropriate laughter: clinical perspectives; title: Laughing your way to health.