• Behavior
  • Health
  • Relationship
  • Intelligence
  • Personality

Psychology and I

  • Behavior
  • Health
  • Relationship
  • Intelligence
  • Personality

Is Laughter truly Contagious?

Is Laughter truly Contagious?
Share on Facebook Share
Share on TwitterTweet

One person’s laughter is soon shared by another. This is because strong emotions synchronize the brain activity of different individuals according to research by Finland’s Aalto University and Turku PET Centre research published in the Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences

Seeing emotional expressions such as smiles and laughter in someone else often triggers a corresponding emotional response in the watcher. Could this be a basic element of social interactions?

The Finnish researchers measured brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging while participants were looking at short pleasant, neutral and unpleasant movies. Researchers found strong and unpleasant emotions as they synchronized participants’ emotion processing networks in the frontal and midline regions while highly arousing movies synchronized activity in brain networks supporting vision, attention and sense of touch.

According to Professor Lauri Nummenmaa from Aalto University:

“Sharing others? emotional states provides the observers a somatosensory and neural framework that facilitates understanding others? intentions and actions and allows to ?tune in? or ?sync? with them. Such automatic tuning facilitates social interaction and group processes.

by
Published: in BehaviorHappinessSenses

Related Posts:

  • Is your brain male or female?
    Is your brain male or female?
  • Interesting Research about Altering the Tone of your Voice
    Interesting Research about Altering the Tone of your Voice
  • 6 Advantages of Sadness
    6 Advantages of Sadness
  • 7 Things that make a Person Boring
    7 Things that make a Person Boring
  • What To Do When You Are At Your Happiest
    What To Do When You Are At Your Happiest
  • 4 of the Toughest Psychological Studies in History
    4 of the Toughest Psychological Studies in History

Leave a Comment Cancel Reply


✔ Get Updates Via Email





Recent Posts

  • 10 Things People Learn Too Late In Life People

  • 8 Obvious Signs Of Emotional Burnout.

  • 7 Habits That Leave You Exhausted And How To Stop Them.

  • 8 Signs That Make You A Creepy Friend

  • 7 Interesting Facts You Should Know About Guardian Angels

  • Dissolving Ego: 9 Signs Your Ego Is Starting to Dissolve

  • 9 Reasons Being Alone Help Build A Stronger Personality

  • 6 Signs You’ll Experience When Your Mental Health Is Falling Apart

  • 10 Signs You Are Suffering From A Victim Mentality

  • Controlling Personality: Eight Things They Do To Keep You Under Them

  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise with Us
  • About

Copyright © 2014-2022 Psych Digital. All Rights Reserved.

Cleantalk Pixel