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 ...

Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes: to signify approval with applause, for instance, or to keep time to music. Acousticians often ...

I'm a fan of "The View." I particularly enjoy the hosts’ political debates. Since it's on during the day, I DVR it to watch at night. I fast-forward through commercials and parts I'm not interested in ...

If you’ve ever attended a classical concert, you’ve probably experienced that awkward, hesitant half-clapping that sometimes occurs at the end of a symphonic movement: The music stops, the hall falls ...

What does clapping for 13 straight minutes do to a person? That question, along with #spitgate, has occupied too much of my mental space throughout this year’s Venice Film Festival. A film I did not ...

Modern American ballparks are surrounded by all the trappings of the fan experience: loud music, fried foods and cold beers, T-shirt guns, mascots dancing while the crowd sings about Cracker Jacks—and ...