15 Facts About Laughter

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Laughter is a pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical, often audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system.

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Laughter can rise from such activities as being tickled, or from humorous stories or thoughts.

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Laughter is a part of human behavior regulated by the brain, helping humans clarify their intentions in social interaction and providing an emotional context to conversations.

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Laughter is used as a signal for being part of a group—it signals acceptance and positive interactions with others.

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Laughter might be thought of as an audible expression or appearance of excitement, an inward feeling of joy and happiness.

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Laughter is not always a pleasant experience and is associated with several negative phenomena.

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Laughter is available to everyone and it provides benefits to a person's physical, emotional, and social well being.

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8.

Laughter is known to reduce allergic reactions in a preliminary study related to dust mite allergy sufferers.

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9.

Laughter therapy has some social benefits, such as strengthening relationships, improving teamwork and reducing conflicts, and making oneself more attractive to others.

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10.

Laughter went on to say that since this type of therapy is not widely practiced, health care providers will have to learn how to effectively use it.

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11.

Laughter in literature, although considered understudied by some, is a subject that has received attention in the written word for millennia.

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12.

Henri Bergson's Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic is a notable 20th-century contribution.

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Laughter needs from time to time a harmless demotion from reason and hardship and in this sense laughter has a positive character for Nietzsche.

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Laughter's conviction is that there's something sinister in laughter, and that the modern omnipresence of humour and the idolatry of it are signs of societal weakness, as instinctive resort to humour became a sort of escapism from responsibility and action.

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Laughter wrote we can strip back laughter to a three-step process.

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