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PBS: "any laugh channels evil if you are in a dire situation"

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I'd take a historian's musings on psychology as hard fact.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A "horror historian" at that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That explains a lot, to be honest (hahaha)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean it's kinda true that in most crisis situations a laugh will be a nervous laugh

But yeah that's not always the case

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not a horror movie, but I always laugh at the dude in RoboCop who gets doused with radioactive goo and then hit by a car and explodes like a water balloon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

what about canned laughter, though?