Use humor and laughter for benefits like finding perspective, coping with stress, and bringing levity to life’s mishaps.

Researchers are appreciating laughter’s power to enhance physical and mental well-being. Ad Feedback. Health. Life, But ... You don’t even need to hear a laugh to be able to laugh.

A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

Happily Ever Laughter Is humor the forgotten key to happiness? Here's how to harness laughter's powers. By Peter Doskoch published July 1, 1996 - last reviewed on June 9, 2016 ...

The documentary film, Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: a Salute to the Friars provides an inside look at the club where show business entertainers meet and then roast each other. The 1999 film has just ...

The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band includes many noises that are not traditionally musical. For example, the title track includes laughter. Paul McCartney explained this was a ...

Laughter’s social power. Many cognitive and social skills work together to help you monitor when and why laughter occurs during conversations. You don’t even need to hear a laugh to be able to ...

Why the Laugh Track Won’t Die. Critically reviled. Hopelessly dated. Forever near extinction. Yet in a TV landscape full of brutally realistic hits, sitcoms with background laughter are not only ...