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Pain 10% more bearable after laughing with friends

On September 14, 2011
Laughing with friends for around 15 minutes boosts a person’s pain threshold by an average of 10%, an international study has found.
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Body’s Response to Repetitive Laughter Is Similar to the Effect of Repetitive Exercise, Study Finds

On June 8, 2011
A new study looks at the effect that mirthful laughter and distress have on modulating the key hormones that control appetite.
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Role of laughter in jury deliberations during a capital murder case: plays key roles in group communication and group dynamics

On April 27, 2011
Laughter can play key roles in group communication and group dynamics — even when there’s nothing funny going on. That’s according to new research from North Carolina State University that examined the role of laughter in jury deliberations during a capital murder case. The researchers were given access to the full transcript of jury deliberations [...]
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Laughter and music could lower blood pressure just as much as cutting salt

On March 31, 2011
Researchers at Osaka University in Japan assigned 79 people between the ages of 40 and 74 to one of three groups. Thirty-two were assigned to a music group where they listened to music and sang with music therapists. Thirty participants participated in laughter yoga, which combines breathing exercises with laughter stimulated through playful eye contact, plus watched a traditional Japanese comedy show called Rakugo.
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Academic Research on Laughter Yoga: What Is Known, More Coming

On March 18, 2011
There are currently many academic research on laughter...and few on Laughter Yoga. This post is a summary of what is know, and what's coming.
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Research validates years of worldwide empirical evidence: Laughter therapy is a useful, cost-effective and easily accessible intervention that has positive effects on depression, insomnia, and sleep quality in the elderly

On January 26, 2011
Research validates years of worldwide empirical evidence: Laughter therapy is a useful, cost-effective and easily accessible intervention that has positive effects on depression, insomnia, and sleep quality in the elderly
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Book Review: “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation”

On December 17, 2010
Laughter, although ubiquitous and idiosyncratically human, remains a neurologic, social, and evolutionary enigma. There has certainly been no dearth of philosophical speculation concerning its mirthful triggers and metaphysical purposes, but no one has previously actually bothered to accurately describe its essential phenomenology or precise behavioral cues.
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Scientific study provides evidence for the efficacy of Laughter Yoga in mental disorders

On October 2, 2010
The first scientific study (randomized controlled trial) to provide evidence for the efficacy of Laughter Yoga in mental disorders was published this month in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Findings showed that Laughter Yoga matched the efficacy of exercise therapy and even proved superior in improving life satisfaction.
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Research says women benefit most from laughter

On September 29, 2010
IT IS a known fact that laughter is good for your health, but a recent study has shown that it is women who apparently benefit most from living life with a laugh.
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Laughter and (IVF) Pregnancies

On May 4, 2010
Researchers found that women who laughed during their recovery from the embryo transfer were almost twice as likely to become pregnant
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Complementary Medicine: Laughter encourages and empowers people to actively participate in their health care

On September 6, 2009
Dr. Gita Suraj Narayan, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work and Community Development, University of Kwazulu-Natal (and a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher!) recently proved that Laughter is a powerful form of complementary Medicine through her research and a series of Community Outreach Projects.
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37 University and Journal Based Research on Laughter You Should Know About

On April 17, 2009
37 University and Journal Based Research on the Effects of Laughter
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Diabetes: mirthful laughter raises good cholesterol, lowers inflammation

On April 17, 2009
Mirthful laughter, as a preventive adjunct therapy in diabetes care, raised good cholesterol and lowered inflammation.
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350+ Scientific Research Papers on Laughter

On October 11, 2008
350+ Scientific Research Papers on Laughter. The following list was compiled by Don L. F. Nilsen, English Department, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
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Pain Management: Laughter Helps Relieve Pain for Kids Having Medical Procedures

On October 18, 2007
Using Icy Waters, Researchers Replicated Pain from Medical Procedures. Laughter Helped.
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Workplace Stress: The Efficacy of Laughter Yoga on IT Professionals to Overcome Professional Stress

On August 6, 2007
In an observational study of 200 healthy normotensive IT call- center workers in Mumbai, India, 20-minute laugh-yoga sessions were associated with significant reductions in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, Madan Kataria, M.D., reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting. The conclusion of the study are that Laughter Yoga can result in increased productivity and quality of work, better communication and interpersonal relationships, and a more harmonious workplace.
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Allergies: Laughter improves breast milk’s health effect, reduces allergic skin reactions

On June 18, 2007
Breastfed babies with eczema experienced milder symptoms if their mothers laughed hours before feeding them, according to a study by Hajime Kimata at the Moriguchi-Keijinkai Hospital in Osaka, Japan.
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Life Expectancy: A laugh a day may keep death further away.

On March 13, 2007
No other patient characteristics could predict life or death within two years as strongly as the score for sense of humor.
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Social Skills: Laughter acts as a social lubricant by enhancing a sense of group identity among strangers.

On March 12, 2007
A study from psychologists at the universities of Kent and Liverpool has revealed that laughter increases altruism towards strangers, a finding which may have important implications for charities and other fundraising bodies. The study, conducted by Professor Mark van Vugt, Charlie Hardy, Julie Stow and Professor Robin Dunbar (University of Liverpool), was designed to examine if laughter acts as a social lubricant by enhancing a sense of group identity among strangers.
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Workplace Efficiency: Laughter Yoga Enhances employees morale, resilience, and personal efficacy beliefs.

On March 2, 2007
This study measured the impact of a purposeful aerobic laughter intervention on employees’ sense of self-efficacy in the workplace. Participants were 33 employees of a behavioral health center. They met for 15-minute sessions on 15 consecutive workdays and engaged in a guided program of non-humor dependent laughter.
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Education: laughing leads to learning

On June 30, 2006
Research suggests that humor produces psychological and physiological benefits that help students learn.
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Fertility: Laughter helps raise conception rate from 20 per cent to 35 per cent.

On June 21, 2006
After introducing clown therapy to patients having in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), doctors at Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre in Zerifin said their conception rate rose from 20 per cent to 35 per cent. "To our surprise we found a significant difference between the women who were exposed to clowning," said Dr Shevach Friedler, a trained mime artist and fertility doctor at the centre.
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Psychophysiology: Just The Expectation Of A Mirthful Laughter Experience Boosts Endorphins

On April 7, 2006
Not only is there real science and psychophysiology, but just the anticipation of the "mirthful laughter" involved in watching your favorite funny movie has some very surprising and significant neuroendocrine/hormone effects.
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Complementary Medicine: Laughter Cuts Health Costs 23 Per Cent

On January 16, 2006
New research in Japan has shown that laughter therapy is an efficient low-cost medical treatment that cuts health costs.
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Happiness Research: Path To True Happiness Revealed

On November 15, 2005
In an unusual three-month experiment, six specialists from a variety of disciplines worked to improve the happiness levels of a typical UK town. The experts tried and tested 10 simple measures in the quest for happiness. They found successful strategies included nurturing a plant, smiling at strangers and cutting television viewing by a half.
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Psychology On Laughter: the capacity for human laughter preceded the capacity for speech

On May 16, 2005
Psychology On Laughter: the capacity for human laughter preceded the capacity for speech
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Weight Loss: Laughing 10-15 minutes a day would burn 2.2 kilograms a year

On January 16, 2005
Laughing 10-15 minutes a day would burn 2.2 kilograms a year the researchers reported.
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Cardiovascular Health: Laughter helps blood vessels function better

On January 16, 2005
A 2005 research at the University of Maryland Medical Center showed that laughing boosts your blood flow. Researchers say it may reduce your risk of developing heart disease.
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Mental Health: Laughter helps patients communicate emotion in therapy sessions

On October 14, 2004
"We were surprised to find how common laughter was in therapy," Marci says. "Taken together with the current understanding of laughter outside of psychotherapy, our findings suggest that the patient who is laughing is trying to say more than has been expressed verbally to the therapist. Laughter is an indication that the subject is emotionally charged."
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Mental Health: forced laughter is a mood enhancer, boosts psychological wellbeing

On April 3, 2003
"Forced laughter is a powerful, readily available and cost-free way for many adults to regularly boost their mood and psychological wellbeing," said Charles Schaefer, psychology professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Neuroscience: laughter is good for you

On January 16, 2002
Less than 20% of laughter is related to jokes; People are more likely to laugh in groups than when alone; Women laugh more often than men; Most laughter is in the context of regular conversation, rather than in attempts to stimulate laughs
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Skin Allergies: Research says laughter may alleviate allergic symptoms

On February 14, 2001
A Japanese study suggests that laughter can alleviate allergies such as dermatitis, which causes inflammation of the skin. "There's more than psychology going on here, there is pyschoneuroimmunology," says Dr Lee Berk. "From a mechanistic standpoint, this study makes a lot of sense."
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Relationships: homegrown laughter may be what ailing couples need most

On October 9, 2000
Robert Provine says that homegrown laughter may be what ailing couples need most. Laughter is first and foremost a social signal that binds people together. It synchronizes the brains of speaker and listener so that they are emotionally attuned.
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