For many years, psychologists and behavioral biologists agreed that laughter was a unique emotional expression found only in humans. However, as the study of animal emotions expanded this idea was ...

Humour and laughter, an emotion and behaviour that is a social construct in humans, often based on cognitive understanding of cultural context, irony, satire, imagination, incongruity and also based ...

In a small study, dogs experienced both stabilization and destabilization of their balance upon hearing angry or happy human voices, but angry voices were linked to the biggest destabilizing effects.

A dog listening to the human sound recordings that are played from a TV screen. In a small study, dogs experienced both stabilization and destabilization of their balance upon hearing angry or happy ...