What Did Hecker Say about Laughter? Funny You Should Ask
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2020-01-01
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Pfeifer, Karl
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The Israeli society for humor studies
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Abstract
The Darwin-Hecker hypothesis, that laughter induced by tickling and humor share common underlying mechanisms, is so-called in part because of a quotation attributed to Ewald Hecker. However, a German counterpart of the quotation does not appear in the location cited. Some textual sleuthing is undertaken to find the real source.
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Hecker, laughter, humor, the comic, tickle
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Pfeifer, Karl (2020). What did Hecker say about laughter? Funny you should ask. Israeli Journal of Humor Research 9 (2):44-48.