Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
Identifying and eliminating unnecessary expenses
How to negotiate better deals
Understanding the importance of saving
Laughing At Someone Else
When one assumes that the other person’s status, position or respect is not deserving, or is misused, the expression of mutual vulnerability, that is laughter has a corrective effect.
When we laugh at someone, we signal that the person is not better than us or is not deserving of the status/position. This is known as ‘Lowering Laughter’.
56
204 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Laughter: A Signal For Mutual Vulnerability
Laughter may relate to our own vulnerability or of other people and could be a way to express this feeling vocally.
- Lifting Laughter: A way of positively signalling someone who made a fool of themselves that everything is okay and we all are susceptible to the same k...
60
229 reads
Tickle Laughter
Laughing when tickled is not reflexive and is mainly due to cognitive, emotional or social factors. There is often no tickle laughter when there is a scarcity of bonding, feeling or sensitivity.
54
195 reads
Laughing At Ourselves
If our own status or position is increased for some unjustifiable reason, we tend to laugh in a self-mocking manner, acting modestly. This is known as ‘Self-lowering laughter’.
53
193 reads
Laughter Is Relative
It is debatable whether laughter is a reflexive response to something, or is a kind of communication.
The responses of certain kinds of humour being extremely diverse suggests that laughter can be:
- A response to a sudden turn, something that surprises us or is against our expe...
130
1.51K reads
CURATED FROM
CURATED BY
Problem solver. Award-winning reader. Devoted food geek. Certified travel evangelist. Incurable explorer.
Related collections
More like this
Laughing at Yourself
Embrace your imperfect side without fear. Fall in love with it. Learn to healthily laugh at yourself as you would do with your best friend when they do something funny. And don’t get upset over small things; laugh at them, instead.
Mark Twain once said:
“The human race has only on...
Boosting wellbeing from laughing
More and more research shows us that the benefits of laughter are wide-ranging and easily accessible. Laughter is not just a spontaneous response to something funny and although it is a social activity it can be also self-induced.
In order to develop our wellbeing with la...
Conditions for laughter to thrive
Henri Bergson's general observations related to when laughter is most likely to appear and thrive:
- The comic is strictly human. When laughter is directed at non-humans, we may laugh, but only because we have detected some human attitude or expression.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates