The physiology of laughter: What happens in our bodies when we laugh? Laughter has been found to start from infancy between the second and sixth month of newborn life and is one of the first social ...

This post is part two of a series. In the first post of this blog series, I made the case that the best way of understanding laughter was as a form of nonverbal communication, one that affirms a sense ...

A favorite writer of mine, Geraldine Brooks, lost her husband to a sudden heart attack several years ago. In “Memorial Days,” her reflection on coming to terms with grief, she wrote this: “Of all the ...

Professor Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. “The really ...

Source: Tokyo National Museum / Public Domain This is a public service announcement! Even during the most fraught times, we are allowed to laugh. Not only can we give ourselves permission to laugh, ...

In a world that often feels overwhelmed by stress, conflict, and uncertainty, laughter and positivity are revolutionary acts. They don’t just lift your spirits they also improve your health, deepen ...

Dawn Brouwers, executive director of His Hands Free Clinic in Cedar Rapids, cuts a ribbon Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, to signify the end of the fundraising campaign to pay off a loan on a new, larger ...

Laughter is a complex social signal that transcends mere humour, functioning as a multifaceted tool in human communication and social bonding. Contemporary research demonstrates that laughter not only ...

Chapter 7 of St. Benedict’s fifth century Rule for monks covers one of the many reasons I am no longer in the monastery: “The tenth step of humility is that a monk not be given to ready laughter, for ...