Further information on individuals and/or their work can be found at the sites at the bottom of each entry.

http://www.ub.edu/practicafilosofica/arxius/L.AmirCV.pdf

http://www.egyptology-uk.com/archive_andrews.htm

http://www.apterinternational.com/mapter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle

http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/personalpages/arkhipovaeng.htm

http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~sattardo/vita.pdf

No further information is available at this time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakhtin

http://www.ginabarreca.com/.

http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/cf/cf/23.html

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/

http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Bergen_Doris_5301269.aspx

http://www.librarything.com/author/bergerarthurasa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson

http://www.ronberk.com/

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~binsted/

http://www.bucknell.edu/script/upress/book.asp?id=112

http://www.writers.net/writers/26398

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Boyd

http://www.karynbuxman.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Chafe

Theory of Humor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero

http://www.pyrrhichouse.co.uk/book-info/alastair-clarke.php

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laub_Coser

http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cousins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crystal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/ihum/fellows/bios/daube.html

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christie_Davies

http://en.scientificcommons.org/jessica_milner_davis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Draitser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dundes

http://www.aath.org/gold/dunk.html

http://www2.eur.nl/fw/hyper/IAA/Yearbook/iaa3/nationalcultural.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Eastman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck

http://en.scientificcommons.org/bruce_findlay

http://versita.metapress.com/content/e3h781561016w824/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

http://www.aath.org/gold/fry.html

https://people.ok.ubc.ca/lgabora/

http://www.tgarnero.com/

http://www.zoominfo.com/people/G%C3%A9rin_Annie_199588302.aspx

http://www.humorproject.com/

http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=20356

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/slavic/SethGrahamCV.pdf

http://www.itchs.org/HQN%2011.1.htm

http://www.itchs.org/HQN%207.1-2.htm

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Grotjahn

http://www.uga.edu/spc/People/gruner.html

http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/HUMOR.2007.011

www.sitlec.unibo.it/ishs2002/abstracts_2/HAAS.doc

The book: Laughter as an exapted displacement activity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Stanley_Hall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carew_Hazlitt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel

http://www.wurstbruch.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_H%C3%B8ffding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

http://www.alexhorne.com/.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Wilhelm_Hufeland

No further information is available at this time

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jersild.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

http://www.kaplancomedy.com/homepage.html

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