Why is laughter not learned like other acts of emotion?

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Laughter is a learnt behaviour, you are not born to laugh, it is not innate. As babies, we smile and laugh/giggle because it caused a reaction in our parents faces, we get a positive reaction to laughing so we continue to do it. Other emotions are a range of innate and learnt EMOTIONS (that is how we feel): INNATE: anger, happiness, we all have the ability to love and hate etc However, LEARNT BEHAVIOURS (that is how we react to any stimulus or do any action) because of emotions we already have cause us to respond to a stimuli: laughter, frowning, hugging, kicking, kissing, raising hand in class to offer an answer to a question, whistling. Those are learnt behaviours yet there are innate behaviours such as sleeping, eating, blinking etc. I hope I helped you out =)

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I believe we are born to enjoy laughter. Sometimes we just don't appreciate some things we should laugh at or perhaps have had too many traumas or tragedies in our lives and forgot how to laugh. Scientists wouldn't tell us that trying to have 10 good belly laughs a day will keep sickness away if it was just a learned behavior. Like crying, if it was just a learned behavior then we'd never clean out our eye ducts! We are born with emotions and thankfully for most of us they are harmless emotions, but there is the odd one that slips through the cracks that is just plain mean to the bone.

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