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Publication details [#45850]

Hempelmann, Christian F. 2007. The laughter of the 1962 Tanganyika 'laughter epidemic'. Humor 20 (1) : 49–71.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | health | humor | laughter

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper argues that the 1962 Tanganyika 'laughter epidemic' constitutes a motor-variant case of mass psychogenic illness of which laughter is one common symptom, and thus cannot be used to back other arguments in humor research.