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About Laughter

Filed under: Articles about Laughter — admin @ 11:07 am March 9, 2009

-”The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

One of the most used ways to develop positive relations with others, to give a ripple of partialism (or subjectivity) to a conversation and to define intentions concerning society is laughter. This is a reaction that is specific to humans being regulated by the brain. There is a special science that studies laughter – gelotology.

Laughter is a physiological and audible reaction. When we laugh our brain sends signals to our body so that we start moving our arms and our facial muscles are contracting. Laughing is an expression of joy and pleasure and it can start from stimuli like tickling or a joke. But these are not the only ways to laugh – there are another ‘artificial’ ways, which are based on inhaling nitrous oxide and smoking cannabis. (more…)




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