Is laughter an innate response? if a kid is born blind and deaf, would he/she know how to laugh?
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Yes.. Hellen Keller laughed.. and she was born blind and deaf
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http://www.authorama.com/laughter-1.html
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Hi Maddy, I am taking a few moments this morning to reduce stress, pre-wedding jitters, not really nerves, just the usual worries of everything going correctly, as planned. lol \n\nSo, here I am anwering one of your great questions! ;-)  I too have often mused on how the blind or others who have lost a sense, manage to do things, normal everyday things those who have all five senses take for granted on a daily basis. I have mused on what it would be like to be blind. You see, one of my daughters had a knife put out her left eye when she was six. It was a horrific experiance for her and also her father and I. While she has not been completely blind sense birth, we have always been very worried, and sensitive of the worry she may lose sight in her one remaining eye. She was able to 'keep' her damaged eye, but she is basically 90% blind, only able to see shadows and blurred color in it. So, you can imagine this is something I have thought about a great deal. \n\nI read the answers you received when I first clicked here. Bonacua B is as close to an honest interpretation, or considered response than any other. Now, imagination does not require sight. They 'way' they imagine things will be different than those with sight, but they still will have dreams and imagination. Blind folks are as capable of those with sight of being able to be imaginative, innovative, creative and otherwise intuitive. They are in a unique position to provide an alternate view, which can be very impressive. When we are in a 'think tank' it is of best interest to implement as diverse a group as possible. When we keep the group diverse we are able to obtain a uniquely cohesive thought process which can produce great innovative and creative 'out of the box' thinking. This will enable the group to come up with a tremendously increased measure of ideas and concepts. When we place a group of non diverse members into a position of requiring innovative and creative ideas, they are limited to only simular processes as they all have the same abilities and therefor are limited. \n\nThe blind may not be able to see 'color' but color has more than a visual affect. Color is uniquely viewed by each individual with sight. Men and women see colors differently. There are scientific studies which demonstrate these differences between the sexes when it comes to seeing color. The blind are able to imagine colors by using verbal stimuli to create a visual concept. Colors also create emotions, blue is calming, red is stimulating, yellow is comforting, black can be either rage, or blankness, grey is dismal, etc. By utilizing all the elements of color the blind are able to concepulize these and form their own unique 'vision' of color. \n\nEmotions are very strong elements, and they are created from many differing sourses. When we are able to utilize all of our resourses we are then able to acheive our highest potentials. The blind are not any different in this as those who see. \n\nThose who are born blind do NOT increase other senses to 'compensate' for the lost sense. Studies have shown that the other senses which are seeminly increased, are available for the sighted to acheive those inhanced heighths. We ALL have the capasity to use our senses to a maximine capasite, the same as the blind, we just don't do it. When we are trained to use our senses to the highest levels we are able to acheive seeminly spiritual elements within our abilities to minipulate them. Most people just do not work on increasing their senses to the degree of their full capasity. The blind are trained to do so. So, it is not an ability to obtain any higher degree of use in remaining senses, above the ability of any seeing person, it is just they work at acheiving these 'high' degree of developed senses. \n\nI firmly believe the born blind are as able as any other to imagine and dream. The way this is manifested may be different, of course it
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Thanks for the laugh. \n\n\n\n--- LeeeN
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sense of humor and eyes
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You know - that's an interesting question.\n\nLittle kids laugh at farts\n\nTeenagers laugh at farts\n\nMiddle age people try not to laugh at farts - but still do\n\nI was at a trivia night on Friday and it was mostly the over 60's crowd and someone farted - you should have heard them all crack up!!\n\nSo, I guess on the whole and universally speaking the answer is YES - farts are funny!
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It isn't necessarily the joke that is told but the presentation. Try to relax and tell her an incident that happened to you that you ended up looking or feeling silly, where you can laugh at yourself. Actual events or familiar happenings are far more funnier then a rehearsed joke. Just watch comedians.
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This was an interesting question for me.  I did a bit of looking and this is what I came up with. Hope it answers your question.\n\nFrom MSNBC "Why do we laugh?" http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3077386/\nA big mystery: Why do we laugh?\nContrary to folk wisdom, most laughter is not about humor\nBy Robert Provine, Ph.D. (Special to MSNBC.com)\n"Very little is known about the specific brain mechanisms responsible for laughter. But we do know that laughter is triggered by many sensations and thoughts, and that it activates many parts of the body."\n\nPleasure and Pain\n"How much affect do other people have on what we find funny? That's what researchers at Melbourne's Latrobe University have been investigating"\nhttp://abcasiapacific.com/nexus/stories/s883200.htm\n\nHere's a slightly different angle,\nTHE PHYSIOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER\nhttp://sulcus.berkeley.edu/mcb/165_001/papers/manuscripts/_116.html\n\nThis one is an _old_ article, but I thought it was interesting,\nHerbert Spencer:   THE PHYSIOLOGY OF LAUGHTER [First published in Macmillan's Magazine, March, 1860]\nhttp://www.mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp/~hhirano/academia/laughter.htm\n\nCase Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH even has a course on it!\nUSSO 214 - Laughter \nTom Bishop, Department of English\n\nWe love to laugh. Laughter can be exhilarating, cathartic, embarrassing, debilitating, punitive, liberating, grotesque, or helpless. This course is designed to explore the universal (we believe) human phenomenon of laughter from a number of different perspectives, not all of them areas of expertise of the instructor. We will be interested in such questions as: How do we laugh? Why do we laugh? What makes us laugh? What physiological, psychological, social, and political work does or might laughter do? Do other animals laugh? Do the gods laugh? How do artists and performers make us laugh? Are there kinds of laughter? Has laughter changed across time? Across space? Is laughter gendered? Is there a specifically Roman, Japanese, or Southern laughter? Is there anything that can’t or mustn’t be funny? What is the opposite of laughter? The course will involve a series of readings and discussions—but also a series of jokes, stories, excursions, interviews, and performances. We will want not only to analyze laughter, but also to do it—and to induce it.  http://www.case.edu/sages/sem_0304.htm
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I am far from an expert on this topic, but I think the answer to your question is "Yes".  My mother had Alzheimer's, and for sure her sense of humor changed.  Things she would never have found funny in her previous life became funny to her, and she laughed at and said things she would never have laughed at or said before.  It may have to do with the loss of inhibition that comes with senility and forms of dementia.  However, maybe she is just becoming a little more relaxed with life as she ages.  But if you think she may be developing some form of dementia get her to a doc who specializes in such conditions - there is quite a bit of help for such conditions now - new therapies are being developed constantly.  Best wishes to you and your family.
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Laughter and giggling are the normal responses when the sensitive nerve endings in the most tender areas of your body are stimulated. For example, you might become prone to helpless fits of laughter if I were to softly caress your armpits with this fluffy feather I have here.
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Did your face stop making them laugh?\n\nCongrats.
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NO!  It is an automatic response to physical stimuli.\n\nIn 1897 psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin described a "tickle" as two different types of phenomena.[2] The first is a sensation caused by very light movement across the skin. This type of tickle, called knismesis, generally does not produce laughter and is sometimes accompanied by an itching sensation. The second type of tickle is the laughter inducing, "heavy" tickle, produced by repeatedly applying pressure to "ticklish" areas, and is known as gargalesis.\n\nIt appears that the tickle sensation involves signals from nerve fibers associated with both pain and touch.\n\nIt might be tempting to speculate that areas of the skin that are the most sensitive to touch would also be the most ticklish, but this does not seem to be the case. While the palm of the hand is far more sensitive to touch, many people find that the soles of their feet are the most ticklish.[6] Other commonly ticklish areas include the armpits, toes, sides of the torso, neck, and midriff. Some evidence suggests that laughing associated with tickling is a nervous reaction that can be triggered; indeed, very ticklish people often start laughing before actually being tickled\n\nThere's a lot more information, but too lengthy to copy and paste here.
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I would rather tell a funny joke. My favorite thing is the sound of laughter. To have the ability to make someone laugh is a joyful gift. You get the fulfillment of knowing that you made someone's day a little brighter. \n\nAnd to me that is a wonderful thing.
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hahahaha \n* thanks for d laughter ;-)
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It's not mine so it might not count...\nAt my brother's confirmation he farted really loud in church and everyone around us started laughing.  It was the polite sort of laughter though, in your hand so it's quiet, you know.  Anyway, my sister was laughing so hard that she did it too and everyone lost it.  They started laughing hysterically in the middle of the mass.
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Yes,it is possible for someone to be physically perfect,but act like a robot and not be able to comprehend humor.But on the other hand,humor is a subjective thing,I might laugh at a joke,and "get it" while my friend will say that didnt make any sense.Not everything is funny to everyone.
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depends if u have them totally imobilised then they cant really do much accept take it and laugh!!