Sentence examples for 1 humour from inspiring English sources

Humour is a fundamental form of social play with many psychological benefits: facilitating positive emotions that in turn may increase problem solving and memory efficiency; facilitating social communication, social influence and bonding and tension relief and coping with anxiety. 1 Humour therapy involves using humour to facilitate laughter and happiness.

Chi-square test for trend found significant downward trends for jokes (χ2(1) = 6.83, p = .009) and humour (χ2(1) = 6.46, p = .011), matching the nonRT trends for these categories.

The first of Stine's more than 40 humour books for children, The Absurdly Silly Encyclopedia & Fly Swatter (1978), was published under the pseudonym Jovial Bob Stine.

34 Humour therapy showed none of the side effects of risperidone.

12 Humour as a coping strategy has also been identified as helpful.

16 Humour may depersonalise the event, and could lead individuals to feel objectively distant to what they have witnessed or experienced.

A total of 191 humour therapy sessions were delivered (average of 11, SD=1 per facility), with individual residents receiving an average of 9 (SD=3) ElderClown visits.

43 Humour and banter were valuable in building positive relationships between group members and in promoting adherence to the programme once engaged.

Between 9 and 12 humour therapy sessions by an ElderClown; 18 a trained performer experienced in healthcare settings, who at each session visited with available and willing residents enrolled in the study.

Figure 1 shows trial recruitment and participant flow to achieve the final analysis sample of 209 usual care control group residents from 18 homes (7 low care, 11 high care) and 189 humour therapy group residents from 17 homes (7 low care, 10 high care).

The levels of MMPs, TIMPs and their isoforms have already been found in the ciliary body, 19 aqueous humour, 20 conjunctiva 21 and optic-nerve head.