On January 30th, 1962, an all-girls boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, witnessed one of the oddest types of mass hysteria ever recorded in human history: The Laughter Epidemic. This epidemic, ...

We’ve probably all heard it before: A woman expresses rage or grief and gets called hysterical. Another discloses sexual harassment or assault, and she also gets labeled hysterical. The tendency to ...

During a speech on the evils of moral corruption at a Eid el-Fitr meeting on Monday, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arinc scolded his country's women for ...

While laughing is a shared human trait, there are surprising gender differences in how and why people do it. Some feel that the purpose of laughter is to strengthen human bonds. Men and women both ...