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jaysway | 13:44 Fri 12th Apr 2002 | How it Works
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Why do we laugh at jokes?
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Very long subject....one answer is that we are happy that whjatever happens to the schmuck in the joke didnt happen to us. Another is social convention: we are expected to laugh and so we do to show group identity.
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we laugh at jokes because jokes are funny.

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