(2) Laughter can slow people down. As the saying goes, "Smile and you will be ten years old", which is applied from the biological point of view. When you laugh, your brain nerves will relax for a while, giving your brain more time to rest.
The meaning of laughter
Psychologists now find that laughter is one of the oldest ways for human beings to communicate with others, and before that, laughter was only regarded as the embodiment of human sense of humor. Human laughter is to unite with others or laugh at others, or tease others with laughter. Each of us mastered this skill long before we learned to speak. Not just for fun. Laughter is an expression. So far, scientific research has always associated laughter with humor. But scientists have recently discovered that another aspect of laughter is more important. It has nothing to do with humor. We laugh, but we always underestimate its function. Through laughter, people send messages. Although many people will hear laughter, only certain recipients can understand the information in laughter. This kind of information is just like encryption, because it is directly aimed at the receiver and does not need his conscious understanding. Psychologist Ioanna said, "This is really a big joke. ? 6? 1 Holovsky said. She played an experimental video: a woman began to laugh. When she starts laughing, it's like coughing. Then she raised her tone rhythmically until she approached the high note of the bird. In 20 milliseconds, she raised her pitch to an astonishing 1000 Hz-which is10 times higher than her normal voice frequency. Anna? 6? 1 Ba Holovsky said: "This is a kind of smile that can make people feel comfortable." She pointed to the TV screen again, and the next part of the experiment was aimed at men: "'She is interested in me', and this man will' dream' when he hears a woman smile like this." Human conversation is full of laughter. Anna? 6? Holovsky is a psychologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, USA. She is one of six scientists who study human laughter all over the world. From snoring, wheezing, coughing or snoring to mixed sounds, like birds jumping up and down, they are all laughter. It is doomed to be futile for a person who gives out some kind of laughter to let him repeat these sounds on purpose. Because his vocal organs are not ready to be funny like that. In order to investigate the structure of laughter, psychologist Ba Holovsky listened to 109 samples of laughter. She found that the continuous rapid laughter lasted from 0.04 seconds to almost 6 seconds. Men and women are the same. Laughter is a social tool. When a person is alone, his throat rarely trembles. Giggling, suicidal laughter and harsh laughter only happen when people are with other people. People who laugh often interrupt the conversation and wait until the laughter is over before continuing the conversation. And people who love to laugh rarely notice it themselves. "Obviously, people are looking for opportunities to laugh." Holovsky said.
Women are better at laughing than men. When men give out deep laughter, the frequency reaches 43 Hz, while women's sharp laughter can reach 2083 Hz, even breaking glass. In addition, women's laughter is more beautiful, while men can only give out gasping laughter most of the time. The reason for this difference has not been studied at present. It may be because women have developed a larger and richer sound system. Holovsky did another experiment: she sat men, women and people of different sexes together. Everyone who takes part in the experiment must draw a sketch for others with a pencil. She found that although men and women always laugh as much in three situations, when men are together, they laugh more. When women are with men, they laugh more. When a woman talks to a strange man, if she just laughs, it means she is not interested. The more times a woman laughs, the more interested she is in this man. Her interest is strongest when her laughter is in sync with men's words. Why do women master the art of laughter better than men? Holovsky's experiment shows that this is because women need to lead the process of "finding a partner" more than men. In contrast, men are not so picky as women, so their communication skills, including laughing skills, are still in a relatively rough stage.
Laughter is not only a manifestation of personal comfort or happiness, but also can arouse some emotions when facing others. It seems that women can ask men through their laughter, and they are willing to meet again next time. In this way, women can accept a man skillfully, or simply refuse without telling their intentions. But in Holovsky's view, women's laughter is not only used to conquer the opposite sex. It can also help women get rid of men's potentially aggressive plans. In this case, the monotonous "ha ha ha" laughter achieved the purpose of defense, and at the same time did not embarrass men. Different smiles are related to status. When men with good relationships are together, laughing at each other with grunts and coughs can keep the conversation between them in a positive direction. Holovsky believes that hearty laughter can bring a good atmosphere. Perhaps the formation of this "laughing alliance" between men can prevent the feeling of competition and attack. In all aspects of our lives, laughter will have an impact on others. Laughter makes the "victim" look like a fool and turns himself into an aggressor. If people in a group laugh at a person, it is equivalent to excluding him from the group. Although the boss of employees is often a boring person, they still smile modestly-all in order to get the boss's favor. On the other hand, bosses use a different smile to make their subordinates feel superior. If they don't simply laugh "haha" but laugh briskly while talking, then they will lose the respect of their subordinates.
Know how to laugh. You should know that when a baby is young, he will giggle at his parents and remind them to think of him often. Before he was four months old and learned to say the first sentence, the baby's throat was already smiling. Even deaf or blind babies. Even thousands of years before humans learned to speak, our ancestors communicated with each other with laughter. So can individual fragments in a series of laughter convey different meanings like words? If so, maybe the person who laughs will say, "You are really possessed!" "or" great! Boss! " Holovsky shook his head and said, "I'm pretty sure that laughter itself doesn't make any sense. "Laughter, as a complex signal code, involves the heart of the person who laughs and causes significant feelings of others. Cracking the code of this kind of laughter may help us to understand ourselves again.