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Informationen zum Autor Stephanie Davies is recognised as one of the UK's leading voices in the psychology of laughter and humour. She has over ten years' experience of developing interventions that have been applied in a wide variety of settings dealing with complex public and mental health issues and building teams in high profile organisations. She is an award-winning stand up comedian who has worked with world-renowned Dr Patch Adams exploring the relationship between health, humour, community and the arts. Klappentext A practical self help guide to using laughter and humour as a thinking skill and life skill to make you feel better and enable you to communicate more effectively. Laughology, written in an easy to understand, fun, informative way takes a psychological look at how humour can influence your behaviour, help you feel better and live a happier life. Simple techniques and exercises will improve the reader's ability to gain a more positive perspective in difficult situations, change his or her mood, and increase happiness through adopting the techniques from the Laughology model. Zusammenfassung From those first baby giggles! we begin to use laughter. It can be used to make us popular and it can be used as an emotional release mechanism. Whilst we are born with the physical ability to laugh! the capacity to utilise it as a social tool is something we learn. And in order to do this! we need to develop a sense of humour. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents include: What is Laughter? Your Laughter Triggers Happy People The Power of Laughter What is Humour The Mechanics of Humour Young at Heart Improve your Life with Laughology Your Humour Toolkit: Focus Your Humour Toolkit: Language Your Humour Toolkit: Imagination Your Humour Toolkit: Pattern Breaking The Power of SMILE