An essay on laughter : its forms, its causes, its development and its value / by James Sully.

  • James Sully
Date:
1902
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Credit: An essay on laughter : its forms, its causes, its development and its value / by James Sully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTEB X. Introductory. page Objections to a serious study of laughter.1 Previous treatment of subject by philosophers ..... 4 Their way of dealing with facts.6 Examination of an illustration given by Dr. Lipps .... 9 Common defects of theories ......... 17 Difficulties of attempt to treat subject scientifically .... 19 Scope of inquiry.20 CHAPTER II. The Smile and the Laugh. Need of studying the bodily process in laughter ..... 25 Characteristics of the movements of the smile.26 Expressive function of the smile.27 Continuity of processes of smiling and laughing.27 Characteristics of the movements of laughter.30 Concomitant organic changes during laughter.33 Physiological benefits of laughing.34 Effects of excessive laughter.37 The laugh as expression.39 Relation of expression to feeling in laughter ..... 40 Interactions of joyous feeling and organic concomitants ... 44 Deviations from the normal type of laugh.48 CHAPTER III. Occasions and Causes of Laughter. 1. Laughter as provoked by sense-stimulus : tickling .... 50 Ticklish areas.52 Characteristics of the sensations of tickling .... 53 Motor reactions provoked by tickling.56
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