In a 2007 study in the journal Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles researchers also showed that funny videos helped kids tolerate pain for longer, suggesting getting kids to "humorous distraction" could help distract kids when they're undergoing painful procedures.
This can help distract when situations become difficult.
We bought Curly, a beige cockapoo, to help distract and console us.
These punchy shades of polish from Eres will help distract from the dauntingly teeny-weeny matching bikini that The Audit is planning to squeeze into.
If your subject seems nervous, try talking with them while you shoot, as this can help distract them from the camera.
The trouble is that Blood Ties has none of the flinty, worked-on little lines that enliven the best thrillers and help distract from implausibilities of plot.
Who doubts that the timing of its publication – two weeks after the EU referendum – will help distract from any problems David Cameron might be having?
To confront the severed head and fragmented body of a janitor in a museum space is a discomfiting reminder of the undocumented (in more than one sense) material labor from which such discourses can help distract us.
Unless the activist who charged at Mr. Murdoch wanted to help distract attention from his testimony — and that of Rebekah Brooks, who is now giving evidence to the Commons select committee — he seems to have failed spectacularly.
In Boston, the Patriots would like to help distract the citizenry from woes involving the Red Sox, but this being training camp, they will settle for Tom Brady announcing he hates the Jets, a position that is not exactly radical.
Mr. LeVox's band mates — the guitarist-singer Joe Don Rooney and the bassist-singer Jay DeMarcus — did their best to help distract the audience during Mr. LeVox's trips backstage.
