No one took the bait to answer your question so I will. My model
correlational opponent processing predicts that the major goal of the brain
is to approach homeostasis. By laughing nervously at a discrepant event
tension is shown and buffered at the same time.
Ron Blue
http://turn.to/ai
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From: "Jeffrey Nagelbush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:12 AM
Subject: Nervous Laughter
> A colleague in another department asked me a question about nervous
> laughter. I gave her some answer but I was only speculating. Do we know
> why some people react with laughter to pictures of, for example, horrible
> injuries?
>
> Any help will be apprediated.
>
> Jeff Nagelbush
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> Ferris State University
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