Amusing Ourselves to Health: A Selected Review of Lab Findings

作者: Evangeline A. Wheeler

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7282-7_6

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摘要: Scores of scientific studies from various disciplines support the widespread notion that humor and laughter benefit psychological physiological health. Some those are reviewed here in context immune system functions, pain stress management, cognition, interpersonal social networks. A final section considers ways which people later stages life might applied interventions. But there cautions to consider application many findings empirical research on laughter.

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