Most of us are familiar with the research showing that laughing at a comedy show elevates the immune system. Clearly, laughter is good medicine. Research is now beginning to provide suggestions that even the anticipation of laughter has similar effects.
The "biology of hope" is what Lee Berk, assistant professor of family medicine, and his colleagues at the Susan Samueli Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine refer to the anticipatory effect they have found in their research. Having verified that watching a video of a comedy movie elevates several measures of mood and body chemistry, they measured the effect on mood of anticipating watching a comedy. The researchers found that even as far back as two days before watching a comedy of their choice, participants were already showing improved mood ratings.
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http://www.newswise.com/articles/200l/11/LAUGH.UCI.html.
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