why do we laugh?

Laughter is a special form of awareness, an Australian researcher has made so when trying to understand the model behind humor.

Ann Hale, medical anthropologist at the University of Sydney, believes that jokes are created by putting together two inadequate concepts.

For example, Mrs. Hale tells the story of a prisoner playing cards with the prison guards. Because the prisoner played cheating, they had taken him out of jail. Hale said: "The prison is holding you. But if you cheat, you will be kicked out. So you have 2 opposing concepts here."

The same thing with fun games. We laugh when we see someone fall, but not the fall that makes us laugh, but the attempts to stand up straight."What makes people laugh when watching a circus is not falling from a rope, but what you can do to stand upright," Hale explained. " It belongs to a category but doesn't match ."

Researchers have shown that we can instinctively recognize inadequate situations right from the early years of life. " If a mother crawls toward the edge of the bed, the child will laugh at the guest, because that goes against the traditional rule that children crawl, and mother goes ."

This shows that we react immediately to abnormal situations without necessarily recognizing the humor in it. This process of thinking is also compared to the response of professional athletes, such as a tennis player who pays a serve before the brain enters.

Laughter is essential because it brings about cognitive recess. "Laughter brings temporary respite after stressful thoughts. It is another form of awareness that is not disturbed by things" should "," but " happens every day " - Hales said.

Hale believes that laughter is a special ability of people. Understanding laughter and humor will help us understand human cognitive evolution.

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