Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If wordlessly clapping your hands to make as much noise as possible feels like a rather primitive thing to do, you'd be quite ...

WERTHEIMER: But what makes us clap more for some performances than others? You'd think it's obvious: the better the show, the more applause. Think again. New research at Uppsala University in Sweden ...

Applause is greatly revered as a symbol of warmth and adoration from a crowd. TV shows that film in front of a live audience often cue their audiences to clap in order to generate the desired auditory ...