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How Laughter Works view detail comment email this

This article considers laughter: "what it is, what happens in our brains when we laugh, what makes us laugh and how it can make us healthier and happier. You'll also learn that there's a tremendous amount that no one understands yet." Topics include the brain's limbic system ("a network of structures located beneath the cerebral cortex"), and the three traditional theories about what we find humorous (incongruity, superiority, and relief). From HowStuffWorks.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-nature/emotions/other/laughter.htm
Topics: Social Science, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment

Last updated Sep 14, 2009


The Human Nature Review view detail comment email this

This online publication features articles, links, and book reviews from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints with the goal of bringing "into communication the variety of approaches to the understanding of human nature which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than they might." There is also an Online Dictionary of Mental Health that is actually a searchable subject directory of Web resources.
http://www.human-nature.com
Topics: Health, Health & Medical Disciplines, Mental Conditions, Science, Social Science, The Human Body

Last updated May 23, 2005


Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture view detail comment email this

An exhibit about the American anthropologist and writer. It includes selected materials from the vast collection of manuscripts, diaries, letters, field notes, drawings, prints, photographs, sound recordings, and film in the Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives at the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mead/
Topics: Correspondence, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Science, Social Science

Last updated Oct 2, 2004


Procrastination Central view detail comment email this

Collection of research material and fun resources about procrastination, including quotes, links to websites (such as procrastination societies and tests), theories, studies, and more. From a professor of human resources and organizational dynamics who has written scholarly publications about procrastination.
http://webapps2.ucalgary.ca/~steel/Procrastinus/index.php
Topics: Social Science

Last updated Jan 16, 2007




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