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Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
By Provine, Robert R.
- ISBN
- 978-0-67404-851-5
- Publisher
- Belknap: Harvard University Press
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Reviewed on September 15, 2012 | Social Science
More than ten years after his Laughter: A Scientific Investigation, Provine (psychology & neuroscience, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Cnty.) revisits the human phenomenon of laughing and explores 12 other curiosities of human life, including yawning, vocal crying, emotional tearing, the whites of our eyes—did you ever stop to note that only we humans have that sclera?—coughing, sneezing, hiccupping, nausea, tickling, itching...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
