Babies can't possibly get a joke, so what causes their giggles?
小嬰兒還無法了解笑話,那麼是什麼讓嬰兒咯咯大笑呢?
Darwin studied laughter in his infant son, and Freud formed a theory that our tendency to laugh originates in a sense of superiority. So we take pleasure at seeing another's suffering - slapstick style pratfalls and accidents being good examples - because it isn’t us.
達爾文曾研究過他兒子還是嬰兒時的笑聲。佛洛伊德也提出理論說明人們之所以想笑,是由於優越感的關係。因此,當我們看到別人受苦時——不小心跌倒或遭遇意外都是很好的例子——感到愉悅,因為受苦的是別人不是我們。