Many people have heard all the sayings, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," and "laughter is the best medicine." But what if these are really true?
In the article, "Humor and Laughter May Influence Health..." they talk about how humor could be beneficial both psychological and physical to your health. Laughter and a good sense of humor tend to lower chemical that cause stress. For some people can find something hilarious, while another person might be sitting their stone-faced. But to work out this issue, they would let the patient to chose their own videos that would entertain them. "Humor response is known to be affected by environmental conditions, and it can be difficult for subjects to relax and laugh at a humor video when experimental conditions require blood draws for laboratory testing. To help control for this, it is critical that future humor research includes some measure of subject response to the humorous stimulus. Videotaping subject responses and then measuring these responses with observer rating scales such the Humor Response Scale can help document the effect of individual humor responses to the stimulus." This is an excerpt from the article, explaining how the environment makes it easier or harder to relax and laugh.
I actually thought that this was a really cool experiment and trial'n'error. I don't know if I would want to be a person who was a test subject but I want to know where the idea came from, and who started getting all the patients together to have an experiment that is unknown in the end. I would love to meet someone who went through this procedure and what they really thought.
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