Sentence examples for mirthful laughter from inspiring English sources
In 2001, Berk released a paper concluding that mirthful laughter increases the production of natural-killer cells, which help the body to fight viral infections and cancerous growths.
"The study has shown objective, measurable, and significant neuroendocrine and stress hormone changes with mirthful laughter," they wrote, noting that laughter "can reverse or attenuate" hormonal changes brought on by stress.
The researchers recorded amounts of what they call "mirthful laughter" and found that levels of interleukin 6, a cytokine that plays a central role in inflammation, dropped significantly in the arthritis patients, but not in a healthy comparison group.
Kataria believes that true mirthful laughter can have a liberating, transformative effect — one that momentarily erases all practical concerns, fears, needs, and even notions of time, and provides a glimpse into spiritual enlightenment.
These results suggest that mirthful laughter elicited by comic movies induces beneficial impact on vascular function.
We determined the effects of mirthful laughter, elicited by watching comic movies, on endothelial function and central artery compliance.
Murdoch let out a mirthful laugh.
We concentrated on mirthful or "unintentional" laughter, also called Duchenne laughter, since Duchenne first demonstrated that genuine laughter is characterised by contraction of both the zygomatic and the orbicularis oculi muscles (fig 2).
Calder, in photographs, is magnificently mirthful, barely able to suppress his laughter.
A gorilla who loves to run along with the keeper on either side of the cage bars--kinda sad that the gorilla's the one in the cage--and then the gorilla will suddenly stop and the human keeps running by and that makes the gorilla roar with laughter or show a mirthful response like our laughter.
Gervais and Wilson (2005) describe involuntary, uncontrolled laughter as "stimulus driven and emotionally valenced" (p. 403), and associated with mirthful vocalizations.
