Type of Laughs

Laugh – Types

It can be classified as:

• Intensity: the chuckle, the titter, the giggle, the chortle, the cackle, the belly laugh, the sputtering burst.
• The overtness: snicker, snigger, guffaw.
• The respiratory pattern involved: snort.
• The emotion it is expressed with: relief, mirth, joy, happiness, embarrassment, apology, confusion, nervous laughter, paradoxical laughter, courtesy laugh, evil laughter.
• The sequence of notes or pitches it produces. It may be subjectively measured on the Andreoli scale for heartiness, with a higher measure denoting greater robustness, generally in a manly aspect.

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Laugh – Causes

Common causes for laughter are sensations of joy and humor; however, other situations may cause laughter as well.

A general theory that explains laughter is called the relief theory. Sigmund Freud summarized it in his theory that laughter releases tension and "psychic energy". This theory is one of the justifications of the beliefs that laughter is beneficial for one's health. This theory explains why laughter can be used as a coping mechanism when one is upset, angry or sad.

Philosopher John Morreall theorizes that human laughter may have its biological origins as a kind of shared expression of relief at the passing of danger. Friedrich Nietzsche, by contrast, suggested laughter to be a reaction to the sense of existential loneliness and mortality that only humans feel.

For example: a joke creates an inconsistency and the audience automatically try to understand what the inconsistency means; if they are successful in solving this 'cognitive riddle' and they realize that the surprise was not dangerous, they laugh with relief. Otherwise, if the inconsistency is not resolved, there is no laugh, as Mack Sennett pointed out: "when the audience is confused, it doesn't laugh." 

This is one of the basic laws of a comedian, referred to as "exactness". It is important to note that sometimes the inconsistency may be resolved and there may still be no laugh. Because laughter is a social mechanism, an audience may not feel as if they are in danger, and the laugh may not occur. In addition, the extent of the inconsistency (and aspects of it timing and rhythm) has to do with the amount of danger the audience feels, and how hard or long they laugh.

Laughter can also be brought on by tickling. Although most people find it unpleasant, being tickled often causes heavy laughter, thought to be an (often uncontrollable) reflex of the body.

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Laugh Each and Every Day

Children laugh easily and often, but adults may forget to make room for laughter in their daily lives. If you can, incorporate laughter into your daily routine by finding what makes you laugh. Remember that you’re more likely to laugh in the company of others, so try to find the humor in life when you’re spending time with friends, family, and co-workers.

Some experts even recommend everyone get 15 to 20 minutes of laughter a day, much like you should exercise regularly and eat your vegetables. If you haven’t had your daily dose of laughter yet, check out the video below. It’s living proof that laughter is contagious…

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Laughter Enhances Immunity, Improves Sleep, and More...

Laughter Enhances Immunity, Improves Sleep, and More

What else is laughter good for? Research has shown laughter may reduce stress hormones and boost your immune function, while also inducing optimistic feelings.

Laughter has demonstrated a wealth of physiological, psychological, social, spiritual, and quality-of-life benefits, such that increasing numbers of health care centers are adopting laughter therapy as a form of complementary care. Opportunities that provide for group laughter, such as laughter yoga and laugh parties, are also becoming increasingly popular around the world. Just a short list of the benefits of laughter therapy are noted below:

Relaxing your muscles	Triggering the release of your body's natural painkillers (endorphins)	Improving sleep
Enhancing creativity and memory	Easing digestion	Enhancing oxygen intake
Improving well-being and positive emotions	Boosting immune function	Improving blood pressure

 

Laughing During Sex Is The Most Intimate Thing

When you first start sleeping with someone, sex can be insanely awkward. You (hopefully) know the basics, but you don’t know how the other persons body functions exactly. You don’t know what the like and don’t like, you don’t know exactly what to do to get them to climax, and unfortunately, it takes time to learn all of these things. Luckily, after a few months of being with someone, you start to get the hang of it.

Considering how uncomfortable sex can be with a new person, it’s a very, very, good sign that the two of you can laugh about it. Let’s be serious, how many time have you done something and say “whoops,” or heard a weird noise, or accidentally put something in the wrong place during sex? It happens, and if you can laugh about it, you’ve probably found the person you should spend the rest of your life with.

Sex makes us feel better than most anything in our world. Laughter is the second best. It’s in our nature to combine things we like, so go ahead and laugh it out.

I know what you’re thinking, how can laughing during sex possibly mean anything good? Well, it simply means that your intimacy is on a whole other level.

You’re comfortable together

Being able to laugh during sex is the ultimate sign that you and your partner are comfortable together. Sex can get weird sometimes, so being comfortable enough with each other to laugh about it simply means that your bond goes have beyond sex, especially if you’re able to move past it and keep going. Sex in general in intimate, duh, but when you can have a laugh in the middle of it, it just goes to show you that you’re relationship is about more than just sex, you happen to be best friends, too.

You get each other

When you are okay with laughing during sex, it just proves that you and your partner understand each other. Your relationship surpasses the typical relationship and you get each other on a level that’s much deeper. Let’s be honest, if you laugh during sex with someone who doesn’t actually get you, they’re probably going to think that you’re not into it or you’re just being weird. However, finding someone you can share something like that with proves that you know each other pretty damn well.

It’s real

Laughing during sex is intimacy at it’s purest from. You’re both able to look at situations and not take everything so seriously. You know that sex is something you share with someone you love, but so is laughing at the little things in life that are just straight up funny. If you’re in the middle of sex and someone does something weird, if you’re not laughing about you’re probably just being fake, which probably means your relationship is too.

Closing thoughts: It’s okay to laugh during sex, sex is suppose to be fun after all!

10 Facts About Laughter

Professor Sophie Scott, a neuroscientist and stand-up comic, put together these surprising facts about laughter.

1. Rats Laugh When They’re Tickled
Rats laugh when they’re tickled, and the more they play together, the more they laugh. Psychologist Jack Panksepp first observed laughing rats in the 1990 s; he needed special equipment to hear it, as rats’ laughs are very high pitched.

2. You’re More Likely to Laugh Around Others – Not Because of Jokes
If you're laughing, you're far more likely to be surrounded by others, according to research by laughter expert Dr. Robert Provine. The critical laughter trigger for most people is another person, not a joke or funny movie.

After observing 1,200 people laughing in their natural environments, Dr. Provine and his team found that laughter followed jokes only about 10-20 percent of the time. Social laughter occurs 30 times more frequently than solitary laughter. In most cases, the laughter followed a banal comment or only slightly humorous one, which signals that the person is more important than the material in triggering laughter.

3. Your Brain Can Detect Fake Laughter
Professor Scott’s research has shown that your brain can tell the difference between real or staged laughter. When you hear staged, or deliberate, laughter, it prompts more activity in your brain’s anterior medial prefrontal cortex, which helps you understand other people’s emotions.
This suggests your brain automatically goes to work deciphering why someone is deliberately laughing.

4. Laughter Is Contagious
The saying "laugh and the whole world laughs with you" is more than just an expression: laughter really is contagious. The sound of laughter triggers regions in the premonitory cortical region of your brain, which is involved in moving your facial muscles to correspond with sound and prepare to join in.

5. Jokes Are Funnier if You Know the Comedian
Familiarity is a key part of humor and laughter, and research shows people find jokes told by famous comedians to be funnier than the same joke told by someone they’re not familiar with.

6. Laughing Burns Calories
Laughing raises both your energy expenditure and heart rate by about 10 percent to 20 percent. This means you could burn about 10-40 calories by laughing for 10 to 15 minutes. While this sounds good in theory, you’d have to laugh solidly for an hour or more for this calorie burning to have any meaningful effect.

7. Laughing Is Good for Your Relationships
Research shows that couples who use laughter and smile when discussing a touchy subject feel better in the immediacy and report higher levels of satisfaction in their relationship. They also tend to stay together longer.

8. Laughter Requires Timing
Laughter has a distinctive pattern. It rarely occurs in the middle of a sentence. Instead, laughter tends to occur at the end of sentences or during a break in speech, which suggests language is given the priority. According to Dr. Provine:

"The occurrence of speaker laughter at the end of phrases suggests that a neurologically based process governs the placement of laughter in speech.

Different brain regions are involved in the expression of cognitively oriented speech and the more emotion-laden vocalization of laughter."

Comedians also use the natural tendency for laughter to grow and fade to their advantage, and will leave spaces at the end of a sentence for the audience to fill in with laughter.

9. Laughter Is Attractive
Research by Dr. Provine found that women laugh 126 percent more than men in cross-gender conversations, with men preferring to be the one prompting the laughter.
In a review of more than 3,700 newspaper personal ads, Dr. Provine revealed that women were 62 percent more likely to mention laughter, including seeking a mate with a sense of humor, while men were more likely to offer humor in their ads.

10. Some Things Can Make Virtually Everyone Laugh
While there’s no one joke that makes everyone laugh, Professor Scott found that one of the best tools for making people laugh in her lab is a clip of people trying not to laugh in a situation where it would be highly inappropriate to do so.

Laughter is a primitive reflex common to most animals not just humans

Humans don't have a monopoly on laughter, says Silvia Cardoso. A behavioural biologist at the State University of Campinas, Brazil, she says it's a primitive reflex common to most animals: even rats laugh. She tells Sophie Petit-Zeman that too little laughter could have serious consequences for our mental, physical and social well-being.

Laughter a universal phenomenon, and one of the most common things we do. We laugh many times a day, for many different reasons, but rarely think about it, and seldom consciously control it. We know so little about the different kinds and functions of laughter, and my interest really starts there. Why do we do it? What can laughter teach us about our positive emotions and social behaviour? There's so much we don't know about how the brain contributes to emotion and I think we can get at understanding this by studying laughter.

Only 10 or 20 per cent of laughing is a response to humor. Most of the time it's a message we send to other people--communicating joyful disposition, a willingness to bond and so on. It occupies a special place in social interaction and is a fascinating feature of our biology, with motor, emotional and cognitive components. Scientists study all kinds of emotions and behaviour, but few focus on this most basic ingredient. Laughter gives us a clue that we have powerful systems in our brain which respond to pleasure, happiness and joy. It's also involved in events such as release of fear.

My professional focus has always been on emotional behaviour. I spent many years investigating the neural basis of fear in rats, and came to laughter via that route. When I was working with rats, I noticed that when they were alone, in an exposed environment, they were scared and quite uncomfortable. Back in a cage with others, they seemed much happier. It looked as if they played with one another--real rough-and-tumble--and I wondered whether they were also laughing. The neurobiologist Jaak Panksepp had shown that juvenile rats make short vocalisations, pitched too high for humans to hear, during rough-and-tumble play. He thinks these are similar to laughter. This made me wonder about the roots of laughter.

Benefits of Laughter Yoga

Benefits of Laughter Yoga

Laughter youga provides:

• Greater Flow of oxygen to brain

• More energy

• more motivation

• A connection between participants

• a better quality of life

• a positive state of mind

• a way to alleviate difficulties and challenges

• relief of stress

• strengthening of the immenue system