What intrigues me most about laughter is how it spreads. It's almost impossible not to laugh when everybody else is. There have been laughing epidemics, in which no one could stop and some even died in a prolonged fit. There are laughing churches and laugh therapies based on the healing power of laughter. The must-have toy of 1996-Tickle Me Elmo-laughed hysterically after being squeezed three times in a row. All of this because we love to laugh and can't resist joining laughing around us. This is why comedy shows on television have laugh tracks and why theater audiences are sometimes sprinkled with "laugh plants": people paid to produce raucous laughing at any joke that comes along.
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机译：使我最感兴趣的是笑声的传播方式。当其他人都笑时，几乎不笑是几乎不可能的。曾经有流行的笑声，没有人能阻止甚至有些人长期死亡。有基于笑声治愈能力的笑教堂和笑疗法。 1996年的必备玩具-Tickle Me Elmo-连续被挤了三下后歇斯底里地大笑。所有这些都是因为我们喜欢笑，并且无法抗拒加入我们周围的笑声。这就是为什么电视上的喜剧节目都有笑声的原因，以及为什么剧院的观众有时会撒满“笑植物”的原因：人们为产生笑声而大笑。
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