[ExI] silly riff on :Nature of Humor: Grinning and Laughing
Lee Corbin
lcorbin at rawbw.com
Tue Sep 16 04:58:44 UTC 2008
Spike writes
>> Several books suggest that laughing, smiling, and grinning
>> came about as evolutionary signals.
>>
>> Question: when you are completely alone, and something
>> strikes you as amusing or funny, do you ever smile or laugh out loud?
>
> I do. I have been caught laughing in an empty room. The scary part is it
> sometimes isn't even something I saw or read, but rather just thought of
> something funny and made myself laugh out loud.
I wonder if it's partly an extroversion/introversion thing?
Thanks for the data point,
Lee
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