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Laughter is one of the body's mechanisms for dealing with stress. Is a sense of humour innate or can laughter be learned?
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Laughter reduces the perception of pain and strengthens the immune system, which is why it is said that laughter is the best medicine. Even if this has not yet been clearly proven scientifically, there are clear benefits in the mental and physical condition of older people who laugh a lot and enjoy laughing, in contrast to people who tend to be apathetic.
Before humans developed the ability to speak, laughter was a form of communication used by higher primates. For example, chimpanzees use laughter to signal that a fight is a game and not an act of aggression. With evolution, laughter as a means of expression developed into a sense of humour that can provoke laughter and merriment.<\/p>\n
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The sense of humour is partly genetic. So some people really do have humour in their blood. But another part of humour is learned. A child, for example, can laugh, but does not yet understand what a joke is in the first few years of its life. As a person grows up, they learn to develop a preference for humour that suits their character. Some people prefer jokes that end in a punch line, while others develop a sense of the bizarre and are amused by incongruities. Humour is a personality trait that can be measured and trained.
In our society, the ability to laugh often atrophies over the years as we lose the playful humour of childhood and become more serious and professional. There are special training methods in which participants learn to develop the humour they have lost and learn to laugh again. These humour programmes have been proven to have a positive effect on life satisfaction.<\/p>\n
Even without taking part in such a programme, you can train yourself to laugh. It's about believing in playfulness and humour, just like in childhood, and allowing yourself to laugh freely. Laughing together is easier and humour unites people, so it's best to be funny with others.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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