Laughing is a very strange phenomenon! You release a hormone that makes you feel happy when you laugh. When you’re happy your immune system is healthier. I think its a social bonding thing. Tickling is a bit similar to grooming and playing behaviour in monkeys so those are probably the functions it evolved from. It makes sense that your body would evolve ways to keep you closely linked with friends and family because when groups work together they can survive better.
Not directly, but you can choose to have a happy disposition, to laugh easily etc. and then subconsciously you will release more happy hormones. There are also other behaviours you can control that affect the release of happiness hormones: (Some people have a chemical imbalance in their brain that makes this a bit harder and they might be more prone to depression, but they might still be able to increase their happiness hormones through altering their behaviour)
You release oxytocin when you feel love, when you hug someone or pet a dog for example and you feel all warm inside.
You release seratonin when you feel euphoric or a giddy kind of happy and eating bananas, chocolate and things with vitamin E like seeds helps your body have the right ingredients for making it.
You release dopamine when you feel success and exhileration and you can be born as more or less sensitive to it, if you are less sensitive you will probably be quite a thrill seeking person but if you are more sensitive to it then you feel satisfied more easily so are less likely to be thrill seeking and maybe more likely to be shy. Either way getting involved in activities where you have the chance to feel success will give you more opportunity to feel it.
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54321pink54321 commented on :
Do you choose when to release the hormone then or not?
Sophie commented on :
Not directly, but you can choose to have a happy disposition, to laugh easily etc. and then subconsciously you will release more happy hormones. There are also other behaviours you can control that affect the release of happiness hormones: (Some people have a chemical imbalance in their brain that makes this a bit harder and they might be more prone to depression, but they might still be able to increase their happiness hormones through altering their behaviour)
You release oxytocin when you feel love, when you hug someone or pet a dog for example and you feel all warm inside.
You release seratonin when you feel euphoric or a giddy kind of happy and eating bananas, chocolate and things with vitamin E like seeds helps your body have the right ingredients for making it.
You release dopamine when you feel success and exhileration and you can be born as more or less sensitive to it, if you are less sensitive you will probably be quite a thrill seeking person but if you are more sensitive to it then you feel satisfied more easily so are less likely to be thrill seeking and maybe more likely to be shy. Either way getting involved in activities where you have the chance to feel success will give you more opportunity to feel it.