Why when we see others laughing we want to laugh too? We are made like this, and the other mammals are equal to us.
Sometimes we laugh in inappropriate situations. It may be a mechanism, but that is. What is certain is that when someone lies laughing, we often laugh too, even if we don’t have a concrete reason for doing. Laughter is really contagious, and science helps to realize why.
“Is laughter contagious? Well, in fact, All emotions are contagious”Explained Sandi Mann, expert at the British Society of Psychology, Ao.We are scheduled to capture the emotions of others“He says.
It is part of our evolution and is something we share with other mammals. It is well established that primates, our “cousins”, laugh in a very similar way to humans.
E laughing is goodexplains Oxford’s teacher Robin Dunbar. “I suggest that when hominids needed to increase the size of their groups beyond the limit that could be sustained by social hygiene, they resorted to laughter […] As a way of singing in choir to fill this gap, ”he says.
“Health professionals and emergency services are particularly prone to use mood to counteract the effects of dealing with stress situationsand that contributes to resilience, ”wrote Sarah Christopher, a medical emergency teacher at Sheffield Hallam University.
Laughing is really the best medicine-and when you laugh a Portuguese, it is common to laugh two more or three.
