If you’re paying close enough attention, you’ll easily recognize nervous laughter as incongruous to the situation—as mostly fake. And this despite the laugher’s actual intentions being largely ...

You know that sudden, awkward giggle that slips out in the middle of a tense conversation or serious moment? It can feel strange, even embarrassing, to laugh when nothing is remotely funny. But this ...

I was sitting in my kitchen one day and made an attempt at being funny, but nobody laughed. My kids began to laugh when I bemoaned that nothing I say is funny. Perhaps ever since we began to emerge ...