Is Laughter the Best Medicine? Humor, Laughter, and Physical Health

By Rod A. Martin. 2002

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Philosophy

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Citations in the corpus

• The benefits of frequent positive affect: does happiness lead to success? (2005, unknown): “For example, in several investigations, participants who had watched a humorous videotape showed increased levels of immunity (Dillon et al., 1985; Lefcourt, Davidson-Katz, & Kuenemen, 1990; McClelland & Cheriff, 1997; however, see Martin, 2002, for a critique of these data).”
• New Look at Social Support: A Theoretical Perspective on Thriving through Relationships (2014, unknown): “…& Vander Laan, 2001; Worthington, & Scherer, 2004), amusement (Fredrickson, Mancuso, Branigan, & Tugade, 2000; Giuliani, McRae, & Gross, 2008; Martin, 2002), gratitude (Emmons & McCullough, 2003; Lambert, Clark, Durtschi, Fincham, & Graham, 2010), and positive affect (Folkman & Moskowitz,…”
• Exploring the mediation effect of social support and self-esteem on the relationship between humor style and life satisfaction in Chinese college students (2014, background): “However, a detrimental effect of humor has also been found (Kuiper & Martin, 1998; Martin, 2002).”