Is Laughter Truly the Best Medicine? A Clinical Psychologist Breaks Down the Benefits of Cracking Up
Stephanie Baxter – There’s a reason we crack jokes with our friends, buy tickets to comedy shows, and seek romantic partners with a solid sense of humor: It feels good to giggle. But while bursting into laughter provides temporary happiness, how else does it impact our lives? And do those feel-good moments translate to any tangible boons for our health?
To find the answers, we spoke to clinical psychologist Michelle Drapkin, founder of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center. “Laughter is one of those things people assume must be good for you. And like many ideas that feel intuitively true, it has attracted plenty of enthusiastic claims and not always great science. But if you look at the research carefully, there are a few findings that are genuinely interesting,” Drapkin told Nice News. Continue reading
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