Laughter

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Smiling is a form of exercise! It takes 26 muscles to smile – so work out your face!

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Laughing can create an instant bond between individuals. When you laugh as a group or with someone else, we feel a natural connection to those people and it can alleviate some of the social stress that being around new people might create.

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Your Brain Can Detect Fake Laughter.Your brain automatically goes to work deciphering why someone is deliberately laughing.

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Research by Dr. Provine found that women laugh 126 percent more than men in cross-gender conversations, with men preferring to be the ones prompting the laughter.

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Smiling makes you look prettier.Studies have proven that 70% of people find smiling faces to be better-looking than faces with makeup.So keep Smilling always:)

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Research shows that couples who use laughter and smile when discussing a touchy subject feel better at immediacy and report higher levels of satisfaction in their relationship. They also tend to stay together longer.

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Studies show that while individuals usually rank “appearance” as very high on their list when looking for a mate, we tend to find individuals who laugh more attractive.

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Not a coffee drinker? That’s okay! Laughing shortly after you wake up can have similar effects to drinking a cup of coffee. Next time you laugh right after getting up, notice how refreshing it feels.

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Laughing for 15 minutes burns up to 40 calories.

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Familiarity is a key part of humor and laughter, and research shows people find jokes told by famous comedians to be funnier than the same joke told by someone they’re not familiar with.

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Laughing is a pretty good workout! When you laugh, you are strengthening muscles in your face, stomach, and diaphragm. It’s no substitute for the gym, but a bit of laughter does make the body good!

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Humans can detect smiles from more than 300 feet away, which developed out of a need to be able to distinguish a friend from foe.

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You’re much more likely to laugh in the presence of others, if others are laughing, and if you’re familiar with the comedian.

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Laughter functions to create social bonds.

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The average person laughs around 13 times a day. Oddly enough, very few of those times are due to a joke or an intentional action. More often, we laugh at chance happenings or things that were never intended to be funny in the first place.

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