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One Neuroscientist Explains The Science Of Laughter

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Laughing is something most people do every day, but chances are we don’t really understand why we do it.

Robert Provine, a neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, explains the science of laughter to Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson. Provine’s most recent book is “ Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping and Beyond.”

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