October 2007
The monthly, members-only, e-zine keeps AATH members updated on the latest developments in the world of applied and therapeutic humor. Each link will open a new window for anything outside the AATH website. All web links below have been carefully checked and worked at the time of publication. If the link does not take you to the listed article, please contact the owners of that website about finding that article. Disclaimer: Published by Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. AATH accepts no responsibility for any claims, either expressed or implied, in this publication. The information and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of AATH, its officers, directors, staff, or members. |
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Humor Research Study Tracks When Kids Get Sarcasm KCBS - CA,USA The ability to detect sarcasm develops between ages 5 and 6, but children generally don't recognize humor in the statements until several years later.
http://www.kcbs.com/Study-Tracks-When-Kids-Get-Sarcasm/986700
Writing Sample By Julia K. Baker(Julia K. Baker) Humor and Laughter in Social Interaction and some Implications for Humor Research. In Handbook of Humor Research, ed. Paul McGhee and Jeffrey Goldstein, 1:135-158. New York: Springer. Fishman, Boris. 2003. Words without Borders.
http://juliakarenbaker.blogspot.com/2007/09/writing-sample.html
MEMBERS in the NEWS:
Ten Stress Reducing Tips for Teens Studying for Tests By biddykessel Call a friend or classmate and schedule some laughter and study time together. That's right, laughing time. According to Steve Wilson, physiologist, and founder of the World Laughter Tour, "If you look at all the research on laughter...
http://biddykessel.twentyninthings.com/2007/09/26/ten-stress-reducing-tips-for-teens-studying-for-tests/
HUMOR in the NEWS:
Care clowns spreading mission to Shelburne Nova News Now - New Minas,Nova Scotia,Canada According to research, humor and laughter combats stress, reduces pain by releasing endorphins, boosts the immune system by increasing the level of T cell...
http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-143418-Care-clowns-spreading-mission-to-Shelburne.html
Our 100 Episode; Happiness and Humor - Find Internet TV This episode of The Happiness Show, the world's first TV program entirely about happiness, is available for free broadcast and distribution by high school,...
http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,255343004.aspx
Lose Weight And Get Healthy; Can Laughter Be A Cure For Obesity? By ezmeraldalikourgiotis Following is a summary of his research, taken from an interview published in the September/October 1996 issue of the Humor and Health Journal. Laughter Activates the Immune System: In Berk's study, the physiological response produced by...
http://ezmeraldalikourgiotis.canadian-music.net/2007/09/28/lose-weight-and-get-healthy-can-laughter-be-a-cure-for-obesity/
Laughing Matters in Clinton Campaign New York Times - United States I don't know what she had for breakfast, but her laughter was heavily caffeinated at times. Chris Wallace, of Fox News, first pressed Mrs. Clinton about why ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/us/politics/28web-healy.html?8dpc
Your health Sur – Spain The multiple physical and psychological health benefits of laughter are far-reaching, Mikkelsen says. "There are so many advantages of laughter that it's...
http://www.surinenglish.com/noticias.php?Noticia=11410
GUEST COLUMN: Cancer survivor says that staying positive kept her ...OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA I firmly believe in the power of positive thinking and the therapeutic effects of laughter. Continuing to participate in routine activities, socializing and...
http://www.ocregister.com/news/treatment-time-hair-1847861-cancer-didn
Smiley :-) Emoticon Celebrates 25th Anniversary LinuxElectrons - Cedar Park,TX,USA For the first time, people were able to communicate humor or positive feelings with a smile, or express negative feelings with a frown :-(.
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/12117/smiley-emoticon-celebrates-25th-anniversary
Living through cancer treatment Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA Humor is one of Ms. Teter's favorite ways to cope. Sometimes, it's a necessity, she says, particularly when someone asks, "How long do you have?"...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/healthyliving2/stories/DN-nh_coping_0911liv.ART.State.Edition1.424a914.html
Expert Reminds Us: Face Fears and Anxiety, Lighten with Laughter Christian News Wire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA Combining humor with this topic may seem unexpected, but the mental health community continues to note that humor not only helps with the learning process...
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/579034146.html
Bobbi White of the Laughter Club of Albuquerque helps people ...Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA White said there is actual proof laughter can improve a person's health. She said Norman Cousins, former editor of the Saturday Review, had a disease of the...
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/sep/06/bobbi-white-laughter-club-albuquerque-helps-people/
Humor Therapy for Cancer WHOI - Peoria,IL,USA At Cancer Treatment Centers of America(r), a team of health care specialists aim to heal both the body and mind. Doctors integrate alternative medicine with...
http://www.hoinews.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=47730
Bendigo: Laugh on credit Sun.Star - Philippines The physical and mental health benefits are multiple. One does not even need a sense of humor to enjoy the benefits of laughter.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2007/08/30/oped/raul.b..bendigo.under.my.hat.html
Century Club: Laughter the secret to long life Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USASome will join her for a birthday celebration at Baldwin Health Center, where she now lives. To be included, send the honoree's biographical information and...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07240/812537-51.stm
All in the mind: Can laughter cure cancer? Independent - London,England,UK... exactly the same thing, even when, as in Helen's case, they understand clearly that their particular cancer poses a very small threat to health or life.
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2901218.ece
Make 'em Laugh: Using Humour in TrainingTrainingZone.co.uk - Bristol,UK When it comes to the scientific background, various research has shown a positive link between humour and learning. In 1985, Powell and Andresen found...
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=172124&d=680&h=608&f=626&dateformat=%e-%h-%y
Experts say a little humor can ease stressful moments at work Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA The research was conducted by an independent firm and included responses from 492 full- or part-time workers 18 and up employed in office environments...
http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070827/APC03/70827105/1888/APCbusiness
Laughter + medicine= damn good business Boise State University The Arbiter Online - Boise,ID,USA Because it's so good for all of us to laugh, we should make it a priority to incorporate humor and laughter into our work — with our co-workers, customers...
http://www.arbiteronline.com/home/news/2007/08/27/Biztech/Laughter.Medicine.Damn.Good.Business-2937477.shtml
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA 97: Percentage of workers who said it's important for managers to have a sense of humor, according to a Robert Half International survey...
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070902/BIZ/709020326
Did you laugh your heart out today? Times of India - India But it seems that he was not wrong in doing that because laughter is one of the best ways to get rid of your stress and tension. Psychological research has...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Delhi_Times/Did_you_laugh_your_heart_out_today_/articleshow/2336844.cms
Commentary: Family dinners yield healthy conversations Prior Lake American - Prior Lake,MN,USAGood food, lots of laughter and great conversations are what family dinners are made of. It doesn't matter if it'sa gourmet meal, macaroni and cheese or...
http://www.plamerican.com/node/3333
Why We Laugh Laughter is more complicated -- and bizarre -- than you might think. By R. Morgan Griffin. Whether it's the giggling of your child or the enthusiastic hollers of a talk show's studio audience, we hear laughter every day. Nothing could be more common. But just because it's common doesn't make laughter any less strange.
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/120/113762.htm
Cancer in the US WSOCtv.com - Charlotte,NC,USA One form of therapy offered to cancer patients is a group "laughter" session. Laughter is mentally uplifting. It's been shown to reduce anxiety and stress...
http://www.wsoctv.com/health/14068137/detail.html
Healing Laughter PR-GB.com (press release) - Sofia,Bulgaria Laughter has proven to be a very healing experience. Some people with serious illnesses have successfully laughed themselves back to health...
http://pr-gb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17397&Itemid=9
Don't be SAD Scotsman - United Kingdom Whatever the source of laughter, it leads to the same set of physiological changes in the body. This is supported by the research of 19th-century French...
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1490772007
Mother's Laughter Could Ease Baby’s Rash. Telgraph.co.uk. Nic Flexing. Medical Correspondent. Laughter could be the best medicine for the mothers of babies with skin allergies, scientists say.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/14/nbaby214.xml
Expert Reminds Us: Face Fears and Anxiety, Lighten with Laughter. Christian News Wire. Combining humor with this topic may seem unexpected, but the mental health community continues to note that humor not only helps with the learning process but can actually be therapeutic in overcoming anxiety. http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/579034146.html
Computers Can Also Crack Jokes. Sawf News. US researchers at the University of Cincinnati have equipped a computer with a sense of humor. http://news.sawf.org/Health/41612.aspx
Bendigo: Laugh on Credit. Sun Star, Phillipines. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2007/08/30/oped/raul.b..bendigo.under.my.hat.html
The World of HUMOR
HUMOR IN THE NEWS: RELATED ARTICLE
Happiness makes you healthier European Public Health Alliance - Brussels,BelgiumAndrew Steptoe, a professor of psychology at University College London who led the research, said, "The evidence suggests that happier people have a reduced...
http://www.epha.org/a/2752
Is 'Do Unto Others' Written Into Our Genes? New York Times - United States In a series of recent articles and a book, "The Happiness Hypothesis," Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/science/18mora.html?ref=health
Revealed: The secret to true happiness Daily Mail – UK Another piece of research found that we have fewer than half the number of friends we had in the Sixties. Of course there are some good reasons for our...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=482378&in_page_id=1879
The role of 'emotional intelligence' in business ComputerWeekly.com – UK Psychologist David Mclelland did some thorough leadership research that found that executives with higher EQ outperformed their annual revenue targets by...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/13/226741/the-role-of-emotional-intelligence-in-business.htm
The Smiley Emoticon Turns 25 Appscout - New York,NY,USA Back in 1995, France's favorite funnyman noticed how all the electronic messaging was devoid of laugh-out-loud humor. Sure, people could read jokes...
http://www.appscout.com/2007/09/the_smiley_emoticon_turns_25.php
100-And-Older Is Nation's Fastest Growing Age Group Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA They have a good sense of humor and handle stress well. "They're very resilient," said Thomas Perls, who has headed the 13-year study...
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBBR22Y26F.html
Office Politics: The key to increased morale Nova Scotia Business Journal - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada Learn to laugh for the "health of it." There are several ways to use the laughter prescription, regardless, the enthusiasm and goodwill generated is a...
http://novascotiabusinessjournal.com/index.cfm?sid=58859&sc=107
'Clowns Without Borders' uses laughter to uplift poor Haitians International Herald Tribune – France "It's great that we can come and bring a little happiness to people after all the suffering here," said Alba Sarraute, one of three clowns who performed...
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/31/news/CB-GEN-Haiti-Clowns-Without-Borders.php
7 Pointers to Lift a Bad Mood By WH(WH) "Laugh Therapy," pioneered by Norman Cousins, has turned out to have real substance. Research has discovered that laughter and joy boost immune functions, especially the production of the natural killer cells that help defend the body...
http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2007/08/7-pointers-to-lift-bad-mood.html
Work happy, work hard: Employee happiness often the key to ...Work happy, work hard: Employee happiness often the key to companys productivity from Bradenton Herald in Array ... Find Research Guides for...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km4463/is_200604/ai_n16283367
Even $20000-a-year employees are smiling Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA Beryl's human resources director, Lara Morrow, is Queen of Fun and Laughter. Her title started out as an internal joke that stuck. The 38-year-old's office...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/columnists/chall/stories/DN-Hall_02bus.ART0.State.Edition1.35ac9ca.html
Happiness research imply that growth alone is not necessarily the key to ... The link between employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and profit is...
http://ruckriegel.org/papers/Abstract_Happiness_Research.pdf
Humor Quotations - Top 35 Funny Quotations by Famous Comedians By amanda-xqm(amanda-xqm) "Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill." -- Johnny Carson. "I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, brutal sex, and rich food." -- Johnny Carson
http://bsabcdpehqbivilkj.blogspot.com/2007/09/humor-quotations-top-35-funny.html
The Children's Trust: Dedicated to helping disabled children to ...This is Local London – UK Instead it is a place of fun, of laughter and of hope - a place where the dedicated skills of the staff help children to regain lost skills or develop new...
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/indepth/features/display.var.1688872.0.the_childrens_trust_dedicated_to_helping_disabled_children_to_regain_lost_abilities.php
Jokes from Dr. Laugh.
http://www.didunothat.com/Jokes/?p=522
Humor Quotes
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.” – Rodney Dangerfield.
“Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special.” – Chris Rock.
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." – Franklin P. Jones
"Sure, everyone always said 'Socrates what is the meaning of life?' or 'Socrates how can I find happiness?', did anyone ever say 'Socrates hemlock is poison.'???????" – Socrates minutes before death
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." – Jules de Gaultier
"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." – Mark Twain
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.” – Samuel Goldwyn
“A sense of humor..is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” – Hugh Sidley
