Laughter is a pleasant topic to discuss. We laugh without knowing why we do it. The greatest advantage of laughter is that it binds people together.
One research showed that only 10-20% of our laughter is suited with jokes. Many times a stimulus for laughter is a person, not a joke. And even if it is a joke, people can't give particular reasons why it awakened their laughter. We send laughter as a signal to others and it disappears when there is no audience.
Gender differences in laughter are great. Females laugh more than males. Men seem to be the instigators of laughter through all the cultures and times. Try to remember who was the funniest person in your class or working place. Perhaps he was a male, Maybe that's why there are more male comedians. Women seek the men who make them laugh and men are eager to fulfil this request.
Some say that laughter is the best medicine. This develops from the fact that laughter unites people and social support improves our mental and physical health. Also pain reduction is one things that laughter can guarantee. People who laughed during some procedures tolerated more discomfort than those that didn't laugh. The same is with patients - the ones who watched funny videos requested less aspirin than those who didn't watch.
Laughter involves a collection of 17 muscles around the mouth and the eyes. Just an interesting fact =)
Another advantages of laughter are that it makes us less stressed, lowers our blood pressure, reduces anxiety (it's because laughter stimulates endorphines, tha netural painkillers). That's the way Freud saw laughter - it converts agression to something more acceptable. This explains why people laugh when they are nervous or sudddenly relieved.
Laughter helps to think us more creatively, it loosens up the mental gears and encourages us to think about things not in ordinary ways.
An intriguing thing is that people laugh more if their boss tells a joke rather than a simple colleague. Moreover, it funny whne someone slips over on a banana skin, but how funny it is when it happens to a policeman or politician?
Usually people laugh about 18 times as day but of course the spectrum varies. Some of the laughter is related to mood but there are some areas in the brain which explain why some people laugh more. It is also related with personality. People who laugh more cope with stress easier in their daily life, they live longer and healthier.
By the way, the arrival of a good clown to a village does more for its health than 20 boxed laden with drugs =)
One research showed that only 10-20% of our laughter is suited with jokes. Many times a stimulus for laughter is a person, not a joke. And even if it is a joke, people can't give particular reasons why it awakened their laughter. We send laughter as a signal to others and it disappears when there is no audience.
Gender differences in laughter are great. Females laugh more than males. Men seem to be the instigators of laughter through all the cultures and times. Try to remember who was the funniest person in your class or working place. Perhaps he was a male, Maybe that's why there are more male comedians. Women seek the men who make them laugh and men are eager to fulfil this request.
Some say that laughter is the best medicine. This develops from the fact that laughter unites people and social support improves our mental and physical health. Also pain reduction is one things that laughter can guarantee. People who laughed during some procedures tolerated more discomfort than those that didn't laugh. The same is with patients - the ones who watched funny videos requested less aspirin than those who didn't watch.
Laughter involves a collection of 17 muscles around the mouth and the eyes. Just an interesting fact =)
Another advantages of laughter are that it makes us less stressed, lowers our blood pressure, reduces anxiety (it's because laughter stimulates endorphines, tha netural painkillers). That's the way Freud saw laughter - it converts agression to something more acceptable. This explains why people laugh when they are nervous or sudddenly relieved.
Laughter helps to think us more creatively, it loosens up the mental gears and encourages us to think about things not in ordinary ways.
An intriguing thing is that people laugh more if their boss tells a joke rather than a simple colleague. Moreover, it funny whne someone slips over on a banana skin, but how funny it is when it happens to a policeman or politician?
Usually people laugh about 18 times as day but of course the spectrum varies. Some of the laughter is related to mood but there are some areas in the brain which explain why some people laugh more. It is also related with personality. People who laugh more cope with stress easier in their daily life, they live longer and healthier.
By the way, the arrival of a good clown to a village does more for its health than 20 boxed laden with drugs =)
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