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Humor and Health
February 11, 2023 humorhealth

Jobs with the highest suicide rates in the country

Humor health is about improving mental health. These are the jobs with the highest suicide rates in the US (via

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Humor and Health
January 20, 2023 humorhealth

Humor helps us cope with life’s challenges

In this episode of “The Science of Happiness” podcast, Kerry Rudd, a comedian who used to help formerly incarcerated people

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Humor and Society
January 11, 2023 humorhealth

The end of laughter?

A New York University professor predicted in 1925 the end of laughter as we know it and that jokes would

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Uncategorized
May 8, 2022 humorhealth

How to use humor in the beginning of a presentation

Humor is a powerful tool to start a speech. Here are some tips on how to do it.

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Humor and Creativity
April 22, 2022 humorhealth

How humor helps you create solutions to problems

Humor is an excellent way to stimulate creativity that leads to new ways of thinking about complex problems. Moses Ma,

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Humor and Communication
March 13, 2022 humorhealth

How to make things funny

How do you find the humor in things? This video from Casually Explained details how to ask questions about a

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Humor and Health
February 21, 2022 humorhealth

Flower in the desert

In 1981, humorist Erma Bombeck spoke to the graduating class at Benedictine College. She told them, “Humor makes it so

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Humor and Health
February 16, 2022 humorhealth

Can humor be developed?

Humor skills can be developed to help deal with depression. Here’s how.

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Humor in Social Situations
February 6, 2022 humorhealth

How to be witty

The ability to use wit to diffuse situations or bring an inflated ego back to earth is a useful skill.

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Humor and Health
January 30, 2022 humorhealth

How humor affects immunity

Does humor positively affect immune function? This is the fourth in a series of four of four articles investigating the

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