Why Is There Laughter During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

• By: Monica E. Carr, PhD University of Melbourne, Australia
• July 1st, 2020
• communication, COVID-19, emotions, humor, jokes, laughter, social skills, stress, summer 2020 issue
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At the time of writing, a Google search for “COVID-19 funny” returned some 880,000,000 results. Similarly, at this time the novel Coronavirus SARS-2 has affected all but 12 countries around the world, and despite testing limitations some 4,256,579 positive cases have been reported worldwide...