Robert Provine

…So if you look at people, well, there was a fantastic American psychologist called Robert Provine, and he pointed out that though we think laughter is about jokes and comedy, most laughter happens for social reasons.…

…It's really interesting. There's a guy named Provine, Robert Provine, who's now passed away. He was at the University of Maryland. He actually studied laughter for years. He would go to malls and restaurants and hide tape recorders so he could tape people talking to each other. And what he found is that about his initial thought was like, we laugh when we se…

…Robert Provine, P R O V I N E, who's a world expert on yawning, been following it for thirty years, done experiments with feeding people a hundred percent oxygen to prove that it isn't lack of oxygen that makes you yawn.…