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I read about the concept of Kynicism today (originating from Peter Sloterdijk). Kynical laughter is loud, unreserved and primitive, originating from the stomach. It’s a belly laugh. It is the kind of laughter that reduces the utterings of the pompous, contemptuous, hierarchical and cynical to ridicule; nobody can stay lofty when they are facing
Kuhn’s 15 stages of laughter I stumbled across Kuhn’s 15 stages of laughter in a paper by Ronald A. Berk (Berk, R. A. (2001). The active ingredients in humor: Psychophysiological benefits and risks for older adults. Educational Gerontology, 27:3-4, 323-339). Annoyingly, the source of the original article eludes me as