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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! (Original Post) Lodestar Dec 2014 OP
Classic inside-outside joke... Hoppy Dec 2014 #1
LOL! Baitball Blogger Dec 2014 #2
Love it! silverweb Dec 2014 #3
The path to peace shows right there :) newthinking Dec 2014 #4
"Data, what are you laughing at?" Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #5
Merry Xmass from LMSP... littlemissmartypants Dec 2014 #6

newthinking

(3,982 posts)
4. The path to peace shows right there :)
Thu Dec 25, 2014, 05:08 PM
Dec 2014

Human nature. Attitudes are contagious, it is biological.

Anger begets anger. As so does happiness beget happiness.

littlemissmartypants

(22,839 posts)
6. Merry Xmass from LMSP...
Thu Dec 25, 2014, 05:44 PM
Dec 2014
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1132281

An ecological study of glee in small groups of preschool children.
Sherman LW.
Abstract
A phenomenon called group glee was studied in videotpes of 596 formal lessons in a preschool. This was characterized by joyful screaming, laughing, and intense physical acts which occurred in simultaneous bursts or which spread in a contagious fashion from one child to another. A variety of precipitating factors were identified, the most prevalent being teacher requests for volunteers, unstructured lags in lessons, gross physical-motor actions, and cognitive incongruities. Distinctions between group glee and laughter were pointed out. While most events of glee did not disrupt the ongoing lesson, those which did tended to produce a protective reaction on the part of teachers. Group glee tended to occur most often in large groups (7-9 children) and in groups containing both sexes. The latter finding was related to Darwin's theory of differentiating vocal signals in animals and man.


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