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Everybody laughs, everybody cries: Researchers identify universal emotions

January 26, 2010 by

Here's a piece of research that might leave you tickled: laughter is a universal language, according to new research. The study, conducted with people from Britain and Namibia, suggests that basic emotions such as amusement, anger, fear and sadness are shared by all humans.

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