Post 55: Smiles and Laughter Are a Way of Bonding.

I smile a lot, like always smiling since i believe it would be able to create positive energies surrounds me. It is as easy as ABC. You meet someone, says Hi and smiles. Do it every mornings, it might helps you a lot, especially when you are all stressed up with tones of work.

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Robert Provine found that laughing was more than thirty times as likely to occur in participants in a social situation than in a solitary setting. Laughter, he found, has less to do with jokes and funny stories and more to do with building relationships. He found that only 15 percent of our laughter has to do with jokes. In Provine's studies, participants were more likely to speak to themselves when alone than they were to laugh, Participants were videotaped watching a humorous video clip in three different situations: alone, with a same sex stranger, and with a same-sex friend.

Only 15 percent of our laughter has to do with jokes. Laughter has more to do with bonding.

Even though no differences existed between how funny the participants felt the video clip was, those who watched the amusing video clip alone laughed significantly less than did those who watched the video clip with another person present, whether it was a friend or a stranger. The frequency and time spent laughing were significantly greater in both situations involving another person than when participants was alone.

Laughter occurred much more frequently during social interaction. These results demonstrate that the more social a situation is, the more often people will laugh and the longer each laugh will last.

Taken from The Magic of Smiles and Laughter(Pg. 84 - 85) of The Definitive Book of Body Language - Allan & Barbara Pease