Laughter is a very important component of our lives, so important that it was built around an industry. From stand-up comedians buffoons at every period there have been people who have made it the business of making people laugh. Scientists have tried to discover what it was comical accessible without too much effort, through their talent, what makes people laugh? Some of their comments patiently waiting to be read in the following lines.
1. Researchers have found that laughter occurs first at the age of 3 ½ - 4 months, namely long before knowing how to talk. Like crying, laughter is a form of interaction between preverbal child's mother or caregiver.
2. At the age of 5 and 6 years that the most exuberant laughter. Pronunciation or grammar mistakes, small errors in logic or even chasing the house can cause episodes of laughter that will not generate the same events in pre-adolescents and adolescents.
3. Learn the age of uncertainty, teens are more likely to laugh at jokes or sexual marked by aggressive notes or relating to authority figures. Some psychologists consider this type of event as an attempt to gain and maintain control. For example, a teenager who, in the midst of a group of friends, laughing at a joke about abortion can try posting in this mask, to others or to himself, the lack of decisive positions regarding this topic.
4. An average adult laughs 17 times a day, or about six minutes a day. Conversely, a child laughs 300 to 400 times a day.
5. People laugh when they feel safe, they feel comfortable in the presence of another, when they are open and free in expression. Therefore, anthropologist Mahadev Apte highlights the role of social connector that plays laughter in relationships. He says that laughter is contagious because it appeared in a social bond tends to solidify that connection.
6. Laughter can be a tool to ensure that individuals are not excluded from a social group. This theory is supported by the results of studies showing that individuals with a dominant social position (head, head of the family, group leader) individuals use more humor than subordinates.
7. Robert Provine said that we use laughter to change the behavior of others. For example, in a situation where we feel uncomfortable or threatened, laughter may serve as a gesture of conciliation or as a way to combat the anger of others. If the person to whom we feel threatened laugh with us, the risk of a confrontation between us and the person decreases.
8. Some scientists believe that laughing caused by tickling is an innate reflex. If this is true in theory we should be able to tickle yourself. However, we can not, even if we tickle in the same place and in the same way that we would cause laughter if we would tickle someone else. Although the information transmitted to the brain is the same in both cases, it seems nibbling does not occur only when the brain is in tension or surprised, states that when a man missing tickle yourself. How the human brain uses this information about tension and surprise is still a mystery to researchers.
9. Contrary psychologists say that laughter is a learned behavior, Steve Wilson, American psychologist known for promoting laughter therapy, believes that man knows how to laugh since he was born. He brings as argument observation that blind people or deaf from birth laughing and laughing children shortly after birth.
10. Although most of us believe that the ultimate goal of laughter is to let others know that you feel something funny, according to one article in the Quarterly Review of Biology, it is likely that the primary function of laughter is not self-expression. Instead, the aim should be laughter to arouse positive feelings in others.
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