Talk:Nervous laughter

Editing for Psych

I thought it was a good article, but maybe change the format of the page. It looked too much like a paper instead of a wikipedia page. Separate the different parts of the article with Headings. I know it's hard with the copyrights, but since you were using ideas form specific psychologists, post a picture of them. I thought it was a well written article though.JMC554466 (talk) 13:25, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Bibliography

Hockenbury, D, & Hockenbury, S. (2011). Discovering psychology. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

Laughter. (2001). Wikipedia. Retrieved July 12, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter

Lickerman, A. (2011). Why we laugh. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in- world/201101/why-we-laugh

Smith, M, Kemp, G, & Segal, J. (2010). Laughter is the best medicine. Retrieved from http://www.helpguide.org/life/humor_laughter_health.htm

I plan to expand this article in a couple of ways. First of all, the mental and emotional effects of laughter itself should be stated. This might bring some insight into nervous laughter specifically. Actual examples of nervous laughter should also be included so that it can be more easily recognized. I would like to add some information about managing nervous laughter as well. Most of this will be backed up with the references listed above. --Kristinafreund talk —Preceding undated comment added 03:18, 13 July 2011 (UTC).

Good job expanding the article! You had a lot of good facts and examples to inform the audience. One suggestion I have is to break the article up into different sections. I think by doing that the article will be more reader friendly. You successfully expanded the article following what you had originally planned to do. EYarde1 (talk) 00:00, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

references.

The first reference is NOT a reliable source, its a link to a website called hypnosisdownloads.com which should be self explanatory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.183.129.33 (talk) 20:09, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

One thing I definately see that you need to do is add some references and make sure they are cited well. I also would like to see you break of into some headlines ... possibly things such as Healthy laughter.. laughter that effects your throat... things like that to make it seem as if im not reading one big paragraph --Falconhockey26 (talk) 00:51, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

AFTER READING AND LOOKING AGAIN YOU DO HAVE REFERENCES IT WAS JUST HARD TO SEE BECAUSE YOU DO NOT HAVE WHERE IT SAYS REFERENCES.... SO MY MISTAKE BUT DEFINITELY MAKE HEADLINES. --Falconhockey26 (talk) 00:52, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Overall a good article, I like the example from the book. Its seems like you might have had trouble with the citations but keep up the good work. Jlloyd1122 (talk) 19:54, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Planned Improvements

I plan to expand this article with more information from the following sites:

Source 1 This site is a thurough explination of different types of laughter and why they happen. This is a reliable source from Psychology Today.

Source 2 This site is a credited journalistic view of nervous laughter, from which I will pull information and improve this site as a whole.

Source 3 This source shows the background behind why we biologically laugh, which can help provide a better explination behind why nervous laughter occurs.

Claire Tracy (talk) 20:44, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Editing for style needed

I was taught in elementary school that use of the word "horse" is inappropriate for formal writing. I am, however, unqualified to make any content changes. Can this be handled in the next page update?

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment

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