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A good laugh herself and having others rolling around the floor talking to neuroscientist professor of cognitive psychology and stand up comic saucy scott. Scott welcome to the show its really great to have you with us so let me start of by asking why is laughter important to psychology i mean laughter hasnt been studied for a long time why are scientists getting into it now. I think theres probably 2 on sista that i think 11 on sirius that psychologists neuroscientists have got a lot more inter...

Anywhere in the world many things that emotions are very different from place to place but these emotions fear and get discussed sadness surprise and laughter they are recognized everywhere and they seem to be use in their core in very similar way so cultures can still be very different in how they use laughter but at the core youll find it has this very Important Role in social interactions and and of course were not the only animals that love so these same basic emotions including laughter are...

A behavior that appears even in deaf and blind babies even if youve never heard of seen laughter you will laugh if youre tickled by a parents. And then we learn how to use us in a more complex way and one of the things that we learn is to have to join in with laughter contagiously to laugh when somebody else laughs even if you dont know why theyre laughing now that was what seemed to be destructed in the boys with risk of psych psychopathy so the boys would conduct disorders and the boys who hav...

It actually is a very interesting emotion in terms of how interesting me its used by humans but also how extremely widespread he says ok so what were going to actually try to deconstruct in detail wise laughter so peculiar and interesting lets start with gestures like gestures like nodding or finger rocking are different have different meaning from region to region but laughter and smiles theres sort of universal arent they. Exactly so as far as we can see there are a subset of emotions with the...

It will also address unease on a range of International Issues that remain president likely to address north korean threat and coordinated response after its Second Nuclear test of the year comes as fighting in syria has resumed after a ceasefire, brokered by us and russia, ended now les krifaton joins us with a forecast. Lots of clouds over las vegas tuesday. Moisture from what is now Tropical Storm paine is producing some showers in southwestern california. The question remains will the shower...