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The National Post’s Robert Fulford’s Dec. 3, 2014 article<\/a>\u00a0on Carleton’s Professor Jim Davies (Institute of Cognitive Science) and his book: Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan).<\/p>\n

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