The Forty-Nine Percent Majority: The Male Sex Role.

Scheff, Jane H.; Scheff, Thomas J.; David, Deborah S.; Brannon, Robert

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“…Many observers have proposed that laughter has beneficial effects on health and tension reduction (Cousins 1979;Scheff 1977;Nichols and Zax 1977;Fry 1984;Greenwald 1975). Laughter offers a distinct advantage äs a stress reduction method over many other techniques in that it appears to be a universally observed behavior in humans (Darwin 1965(Darwin [1872 ;Arnold 1960;Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1972).…”

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Laughter and stress

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Winzelberg²

1992

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The effectiveness of laughter in reducing physiological and psychological measures of stress is compared with relaxation training and control groups. Personality factors of sense ofhumor and use ofhumor to cope äs well äs group size are also compared. Subjects were 74 College students randomly assigned to either a humorous or control videotape, or an audiotaped relaxation program. While laughter was not found to be äs effective äs relaxation training in reducing physiological measures of stress, it did appear to reduce psychological measures. Personality factors were found to be significantly correlated with stress reduction, especially with women.

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