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laughter is linked to healthy function of blood vessels

cause the tissue that forms the inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, to dilate or expand in order to increase blood flow.

opposite effect occurred on the blood vessels when the subjects watched suspenseful films

link between mental stress and the narrowing of blood vessels

The speakers “laughed almost 50% more than their audiences

Even banal questions and statements like “Where have you been?” and “It was nice meeting you, too” provoked laughter, which “suggests that the critical stimulus for laughter is another person, not a joke.”

was 30 times more frequent in social than solitary situations

students were much more likely to talk to themselves or even smile when alone than to laugh

females laugh more than males