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A close friend of mine has the best laugh in the known universe. It takes one Kate peal of laughter and everyone around her feels good. Spirits soar. Her laugh is so infectious that you can't help but laugh too, even if you have no idea what Kate is laughing about.

And now, 30 years after I first heard that magic laugh, I have discovered why it is so special.

Professor Michael Owren and a team from Georgia State University, Atlanta, have just published the results of a study in which volunteers were played nearly 50 different kinds of recorded laughter and asked to rate them.

The winner was a genuine, spontaneous, open-mouth laughter which used the vocal chords (as opposed to a muted snigger).

And the most infectious laughter of all, according to the study, comes from women.

Especially Kate.
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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Happy Spot, North America, US, Psychology

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Who would you rather have as your mother?

November 12th 2010 02:53

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Choice 1: Pink
Pink is also known as P!nk and Alecia Beth Moore. She was born September 8, 1979, and is described by Wikipedia as an American singer, songwriter, musician, acrobat, dancer and actress.

She has been a celebrity for 10 years, famous for the things listed above plus for being beaten as a child.

The beatings became known this week during an interview with celebrity news site Access Hollywood. Pink told the site political correctness had gone too far, that her father had beaten her regularly, that she believed those beatings had saved her life, and that she intended to beat her own children.

"I think parents need to beat the crap out of their kids," she said.

Pink, whose parents divorced when she was seven, was widely reported this week to be expecting her first child with husband Carey Hart.

Choice 2: Angelina Jolie
Born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975, Jolie she is described by Wikipedia as an American actress and humanitarian.

She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and works as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR.

Jolie got a start in film alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out. She later famously fell out with her father for many years, but there are no reports that he ever beat her.

Jolie has six children, including adopted Cambodian and Vietnamese orphans, for whom she employs Cambodian and Vietnamese nannies so the children can grow up knowing their native languages.

Angelina Jolie can't cook but is happy to spend time in the kitchen with six-year-old Pax, who loves to cook.

The choice
We can't choose our parents, and so much of what we are is a legacy of what our parents were as we grew up. In adulthood, however, and especially, in parenthood, there are strong instincts which can overcome prejudices and guide our choices.

Who would you choose to be your mother?

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Celebrity watch, Children, Psychology

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Money is sexy

August 30th 2010 08:28

Money compensates for bad hair too

There is an old joke that defines "charisma" as something that short, fat, balding rich men have. An Israeli academic has just proven it correct.

Dan Ariely, who is a Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University in the US, determined that short men looking for women through online dating sites are disadvantaged and the only thing that can compensate, in the eyes of women, for their shortness of stature is money.

Specifically, men need to earn about US$35,000 more a year for every inch they are under 5ft10in.

Prof Ariely reached the conclusion after polling 28,000 online daters.

His research also revealed that women think men are most desirable aged 27, men think women are most desirable at 21, women go more for looks while men go more for age and weight, and both lie a lot in creating their online profiles.

For women, the attractiveness of men rises the more education they have, but men don't return the compliment, generally giving a woman no extra credit for a degree beyond a bachelor's. Intimidated?

Professor Ariely's rather sad findings are published in his book "The Upside of Irrationality".

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Dating, Human nature, Psychology, Romance

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Questions about the afterlife

April 19th 2010 11:38

A remarkable story has unfolded today about the near-death experience of a three-year-old boy in Germany.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Europe, Happy Spot, Health, Psychology, Religion, Science

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Women as bread winners

March 18th 2010 07:19

So much for males being the bread winners. According to new research based on monkey responses we may, at a basic and instinctive level, see women as the bread winners.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Africa, Psychology, Science

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Getting to the bottom of the graffiti problem

March 8th 2010 06:35

VYOOS EDITORIAL
Sometimes, the best decisions in law are innovative moments of colour splashed on grey areas of inefficacy.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Mexico, Human nature, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Vyoos Editorial

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Today's news: beer goggles

January 11th 2010 21:41

Too much beer does not affect your ability to get a woman's age wrong, according to a British study.

The study at the University of Leicester had researchers showing a group of people half of whom were sober and half of whom had consumed varying amounts of alcohol images of females meant to be 13, 17 or 20

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Beer, Law, Psychology, Romance, Sex

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How cool is this?

December 22nd 2009 20:09

Adam Ferrier has a bright future in his chosen field of consumer psychology, whatever that is.

Ferrier, whom we should call Dr Ferrier because he has just completed a PhD at the University of Western Sydney, chose as his thesis subject something far more cool than the usual. His study was: what makes people cool

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