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University and Journal Based Research on the Effects of Laughter
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
A recent research shows that laughter has myriad health benefits, yet the medical community has not implemented it formally as a treatment.
Laughing with friends for around 15 minutes boosts a person’s pain threshold by an average of 10%, an international study has found.
A new study looks at the effect that mirthful laughter and distress have on modulating the key hormones that control appetite.
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 [...]
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.
This page is a summary of the 10 most relevant current academic research on Laughter Yoga specifically, known student thesis and private (not published) research projects.
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
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.