Relations, as laughable, [13], [107], [300], [302], [316].
Relief from strain, in nervous laughter, [65]–70; laughter on solemn occasions as, [80], [118]; in laughter at the indecent, [118]; in laughter at degradation, [140]; as explaining explosiveness of laughter, [176]; in children’s laughter, [196], [198], [204]; in laughter of savages, [228]; in laughter of art, [282].
Rengger, J. R., [226].
Repetition, effect of, on child’s laughter, [188], [190]; effect of, on emotional reaction, [190]; as comic incident, [348].
Respiration, laughter and, [30], [33]–35, [42], [69], [142].
Restoration, the, literature of, [282]; comedy of, [283], [287], [370].
Restraints on laughter, by the community, [418]–420; by the individual, [420]–422.
Retaliative joke, among savages, [230]; in comedy, [350].
Retirement. See Detachment.
Reverence, laughter as destructive of, [422].