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Excerpts from the Periodic Table of Laughter

I was commissioned by California Monthly (the UCB alumni magazine) to do an illustration for an article about a study going on in the psychology department. This project involves the categorization of different types of laughter -- as we all know, people laugh for lots of other reasons than just being genuinely amused! I wanted to do a bunch of faces laughing in different ways, and then the idea of doing a periodic table came up, which made it even more fun. Here are a few of my favorites.