A number of studies suggest that laughter is good for your health: It lowers stress, alleviates anxiety and gives you energy to finish a task. It can also reduce inflammation and improve blood flow, ...

Laughter is often described as the shortest distance between two people. But what happens when that distance is widened by power? As a business psychologist and host of a podcast on humorology, I’ve ...

I’m sure somewhere in the annals of this blog series I’ve suggested that laughter and humor infiltrate almost every facet of our lives. They appear in our exchanges at home with family, at school with ...

Next, embrace what Duffy calls the “Three Pillars of Good Humor.” Be present in the moment, so you see more of what’s around ...

When asked tough questions in front of a crowd, leaders sometimes respond with a laugh. This played out famously when Tesla CEO Elon Musk, during a 2013 earnings call, broke into laughter after a ...

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology Art of Oncology article, "Humor Me” by Dr. Stacey Hubay, who is a Medical Oncologist at the Grand River Regional Cancer Center. The essay is followed by ...

NPR's Sacha Pfieffer speaks to comedian Chris Duffy about his new book, "Humor Me." In it, he explores how laughing can be therapeutic and argues that humor can be taught, lost and regained.

A bit of gallows humor can remind us that death does not have the final word. “A dark sense of humor can be an early sign of dementia.” I didn’t read that in a peer-reviewed medical study but on a ...