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August 2000 More Than the Best Medicine

Meredith F. Small

Scientific American 283, 24-24 doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0800-24

May 2010 The Humor Gap

Christie Nicholson

Scientific American Mind 21, 38-45 doi: 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0510-38

23 October 2012 The Humor Gap

Christie Nicholson

Scientific American 21, 66-73 doi: 10.1038/scientificamericanbrain0512-66

3 April 1847 I Love a Laugh Scientific American 2, 217-217 doi:v10.1038/scientificamerican04031847-217

2 May 2006 Energy expenditure of genuine laughter

M S Buchowski, K M Majchrzak, K Blomquist, K Y Chen, D W Byrne & + et al.

International Journal of Obesity 31, 131-137 doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803353

19 June 2012 The Rat that Laughed

Jesse Bering

Scientific American 307, 74-77 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0712-74

January 1989 Computer Recreations

A. K. Dewdney

Scientific American 260, 106-109 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0189-106

31 July 1847 Laugh, Lady, Laugh Scientific American 2, 353-353 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican07311847-353

17 December 1998 A serious article about laughter

Sara Abdulla

Nature News doi:10.1038/news981217-2 
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21 December 2011 No Laughing Matter: Intranasal Oxytocin Administration Changes Functional Brain Connectivity during Exposure to Infant Laughter

Madelon M E Riem, Marinus H van IJzendoorn, Mattie Tops, Maarten A S Boksem, Serge A R B Rombouts & + et al.

Neuropsychopharmacology 37, 1257-1266 doi:10.1038/npp.2011.313 
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Laughing Matters

Steve Ayan

Scientific American Mind 20, 24-31 doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0409-24

12 November 1898 Psychological Cause of Laughter Scientific American 46, 19124-19124 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican11121898-19124bsupp

December 2000 Laugh and the World Laughs with You

Frans B. M. De Waal

Scientific American 283, 108-112 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1200-108

February 1956 Responses to Humor

Jacob Levine

Scientific American 194, 31-35 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0256-31

15 June 1895 Why We Laugh Scientific American 39, 16227-16227 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican06151895-16227bsupp

29 May 1847 The Laugh of a Child Scientific American 2, 281-281 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican05291847-281b

5 February 1903 The Theory of Laughter

W. MCDOUGALL

Nature 67, 318-319 doi:10.1038/067318a0 
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7 April 2008 How to laugh away stress

Matt Kaplan

Nature News doi:10.1038/news.2008.741 
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December 1969 How an Instinct is Learned

Jack P. Hailman

Scientific American 221, 98-108 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1269-98

October 2005 A Healthy Laugh

Charmaine Liebertz

Scientific American Mind 16, 90-91 doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind1005-90