Cognitive reappraisal and distracting yourself are a couple of methods that may help you avoid an awkward moment. In A ...

When you’ve lived as long as I have, you’ve had a lot of “happenings” and many of them were on the verge of hilarious.

When I was little, I tended to fall into bouts of uncontrollable laughter. Basically, once I started laughing, I found it very difficult to stop. The problem was particularly acute in contexts where I ...