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Laughter really is the best medicine research finds

Laughter and humour are potent tools that can significantly impact our wellbeing, according to research conducted by Professor Stephanie Schnurr and Yanyan Li, at the University of Warwick's Department of Applied Linguistics, who have shown how laughter and humour can be incorporated into our lives to achieve greater wellbeing.

Their research studies on laughter and humour in both the workplace and in health-related circumstances show that they possess remarkable properties that can alleviate worry, diminish feelings of isolation, and instil a sense of control over one's mental and emotional state, acting as a natural pressure value.

Read more here: https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/laughter_really_is

This research has also been quoted in several publications:

Mon 26 Jun 2023, 16:56