“…Then four reviews frame laughter studies in the fields of anthropology (Dunbar [2]), ethology (Davila-Ross & Palagi [3]), psychology (Scott et al [4]) and cross-cultural studies (Bryant & Bainbridge [5]). (ii) A second section is entirely dedicated to new empirical data, with studies tackling the issue of laughter in the fields of behavioural studies (Burke et al [6], Proelss et al [7]), social psychology (Hess [8], Wood [9]), consciousness studies (Prochazkova et al…”