Hand and Eye Dominance Causes, Real vs. Fake Laughter, and Video Games for Teaching Empathy

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Test how well you can tell real laughter from fake laughter; learn how scientists used a video game to teach children empathy; and learn what causes eye, hand, and foot dominance.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Can You Tell Fake Laughter from Real Laughter? — https://curiosity.im/2B4Lek2
Scientists Used Video Games to Teach Children Empathy — https://curiosity.im/2wOq8oU

Plus, we discuss hand/eye dominance using the following research:

More than 500,000 years of right-handedness in Europe | Taylor & Francis — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1357650X.2010.529451
Left-handedness: Genes and matter of chance | Genetic Literacy Project — https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/08/29/left-handedness-genes-and-a-matter-of-chance/
Footedness of left- and right-handers | American Journal of Psychology — https://www.jstor.org/stable/1421487?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Sighting dominance, handedness, and visual acuity preference: three mutually exclusive modalities? | Opthalmic & Physiological Optics — https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1475-1313.2001.00549.x
What being right or left-handed says about your brain | Quartz — https://qz.com/659767/what-being-right-or-left-handed-says-about-your-brain/

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three of your favorite Curiosity Daily stories from the past year to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:07.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:08.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:09.0	Today, we'll test how well you can tell real laughter from fake laughter.
0:13.1	You'll learn how scientists used a video game
0:15.3	to teach children empathy.
0:17.0	And we'll answer a listener question
0:18.8	about what causes eye, hand, and foot dominance.
0:21.7	Let's dominate some curiosity.
0:23.2	That's stupid.
0:25.4	What's satisfy some curiosity.
0:27.8	Can you tell real laughter from fake laughter?
0:30.8	Well a new study says you can, but we're going to see how good you are at it.
0:35.2	That includes you, Cody.
0:36.2	Oh boy.
0:37.4	First, here's some background.
0:38.8	Greg Bryant is a communications professor nicknamed The Laughter Guy, since he's done so much research on the topic.
0:45.0	He gathered 884 people from 21 different countries, including six continents,
0:50.0	to see if they could tell the difference between real laughter and fake laughter.
0:54.8	Nearly two-thirds of participants were able to guess right, even if they were from different
0:58.9	cultures or spoke different languages.
1:00.9	Along with his other research, Bryant says that this supports the idea that
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