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sophos scott welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us so let me start of by asking why is laughter important to psychology i mean laughter hasn't been studied for a long time why are scientists getting into it now i think there's probably 2 ounces to that i think 11 on sirius the psychologists neuroscientists a good a lot more interested in positive emotions in general most of the research in psychology into emotions has focused on negative emotions and there's been a general recognition over the last 15 or so years that we need to pay more attention supposed to be emotions and i think secondly. when you still it's pay attention to it actually is a very interesting emotion in terms of how interesting me it's used by humans but also how extremely widespread he says ok so what we're going to actually try to deconstruct in detail wise laughter so peculiar and interesting let's start with gestures like gestures like nodding or finger rocking are different have different meaning from region to region but laughter and smiles there's sort of universal aren't they exactly so as

nothing about the real economy and should have nothing to do with it when finance dominates capitalism sophos we need to get back to that i was in capitalism you know entrepreneurial stuff is dominant and that means weakening financial capital that's a clever sort of magicians trick is it like they confuse the populations mind of saying oh jamie diamond then and ray dally oh these guys are capitalists these guys but it's industrial capitalists that are actually always served up they never mention jamie diamond they'll mention it on musk if you if you tax the wealthy you're going to lose that you it's the piece of the she has shown pay trick i mean we want to get the people who do the entrepreneurial stuff and take the genuine risks and then as i do the ones we want it's not been getting the money in the system now it's the we're inside it's the delhi as well dell is not so bad but it's the jamie dominance and so on the whole financial sector they're getting the money we stole to far we stagnate they don't come up with new ideas they don't come up with with new concepts we all benefit from the

nothing about the real economy and should have nothing to do with it when finance dominates capitalism sophos we need to get back to that i was in capitalism you know entrepreneurial stuff is dominant and that means weakening financial capital that's a clever sort of magicians trick is it like they confuse the population's mind saying oh jamie diamond and ray dal you know these guys are capitalists these guys but it's industrial capitalists that are actually always served up they never mention jamie diamond they'll mention it on mosque if you if you tax the wealthy you're going to lose that you had to feed the shia show until you trick i mean we want to get the people who do the entrepreneurial stuff and take the genuine risks and then as i do the ones we want it's not them getting the money in the system now it's the we're inside it's the deli as well dell is not so bad but it's the jamie dominance and so on the whole financial sector they're getting the money and we stole to fly we stagnate they don't come up with new ideas they don't come up with with new concepts we all benefit from they

. —1, maybe even managed to in the suburbs, sophos by dawn tomorrow muggy.s well. another breezy day. perhaps not as breezy as today. the wednesday, bright start, some heavy showers, however thursday we will get some sunshine to start with, but then turning rather wet and windy as we had further through the afternoon. so a rather unsettled week to come. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello this is breakfast with dan walker in salford and louise minchin in crewe. it's 6:30am on monday the 9th of december. we'll have the latest news and sport injust a moment. coming up on breakfast today: i was a defining weekend for british boxing — we'll hear from the now two—time unified heavyweight champion of the world, anthonyjoshua. we'll be joined by the couple who've finally found happiness after a racial discrimination battle with their local adoption service. and in the latest of our interviews with political party leaders, jo swinson of the liberal democrats will b