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The Laughing Species
Natural History, Dec, 2000 by Robert R. Provine
Although his doctoral dissertation on the development of electrical activity in the spinal chord of the chick embryo was followed by research on more than thirty other animal species, Robert R. Provine ("The Laughing Species") eventually decided "it was time to get out of the lab and apply my techniques and findings to human behavior." The result, based on an investigation of everything from personal ads in newspapers to laugh boxes (Provine owns a hundred of them), was Laughter: A Scientific Investigation (Viking Press, 2000).
The book includes "Ten Tips for Increasing Laughter" but none for suppressing it ("It's easy to kill laughter, and many people and enterprises already have mastered this more modest art"). A professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Provine plans to continue his research on laughter and tickling and to investigate the behavior of self-replicating machines.
COPYRIGHT 2000 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
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