Smiech ako moc a premeny človeka súčasnosti (The Laughter as a Power and Changes of Contemporary Human)

This article deals with the power of laugh as an expression of a human evoked by emotional, cognitive, physiological, and expressive changes which cause further changes in another person and society. Ambivalence is one of the basic characteristics of laugh which is why it cannot be fullly grasped in theory, even though it has been proved that joy expressed by laugh is the most universal emotion. Examples from movies serve well to observe laugh as a form of social gesture in contemporary society