Laugh And The Whole World Laughs With You: Why The Brain Just Can't Help Itself

I'm filing this with a 'mimesis' tag because it's yet another piece of evidence indicating that mimetic behaviour in humans is pretty much hard wired. I am hypothesising that this is important because a chaos-emergent account of 'corporisations' (my coined term to describe emergent corporate beings, I've also used the term corpowers and corpowerations in other places.)

positive sounds such as laughter or a triumphant "woo hoo!" trigger a response in the listener's brain. This response occurs in the area of the brain that is activated when we smile, as though preparing our facial muscles to laugh. ... "We've known for some time now that when we are talking to someone, we often mirror their behaviour, copying the words they use and mimicking their gestures. Now we've shown that the same appears to apply to laughter, too -- at least at the level of the brain."

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