Tonight medication than effervescent aspirin I took a magazine: "Knowing & HEALTH". I drew the title on the cover, "Psyche, the humor that heals" and here I want to put a portion of the article then I went to read:)
For centuries, rice and humor prevailed a negative image, which they perceived as a manifestation of immaturity and lack of moral character or conduct as socially dangerous. However, even then did not escape any of the properties now the most popular humor: to circumvent the conventions and hierarchies to show the implications of reality constituted less decent, or simply offer a view played down the world.
To lift the mood course. But also to stay healthy.
The interest of the medical for the effects of the fun is a novelty in recent decades. The most ardent supporters have set up in many countries - from the U.S. to South Africa, Germany and New Zealand - associations that offer various forms of comicoterapia.
- men are more often producers of humor, that is laughable, and prefer the humor of movies or jokes;
- women are more often consumers of humor, that laugh, and prefer the comedy inherent in the events of everyday life;
- the more extroverted appreciate the humor of the jokes immediate simple;
-'s introverts prefer the humor of such "intellectual" plays on words and nonsense or black humor;
- people emotionally unstable appreciate humor more disruptive and aggressive and less sociable;
- individuals with high self-esteem effortlessly using a variety of forms of humor and comic stimuli;
- individuals become less confident of a strong more aggressive humor. :-)