Your fake laughter is not fooling anyone, new research shows people can tell the difference. To test whether fake laughs are distinguishable from the real thing, UCLA researchers recorded spontaneous ...

There are some sounds that stay with you, rattling around in your brain until they become part of your sonic memory. See enough movies, and certain sound effects will hold this honor—like the Wilhelm ...

Why do we laugh? The obvious answer is because something is funny. But if we look closer at when and how laughter occurs in ordinary social situations, we see that it's not so simple. Like most ...

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