article_snippet: An attack of the giggles can sometimes appear at the strangest moments.
article_snippet: Whether it's during a speech or in a meeting, helpless laughter is one of our most insightful behaviours, according to Professor Sophie Scott.
article_snippet: In a recent Ted Talk in Vancouver, Professor Sophie Scott Professor Sophie Scott revealed that laughter often isn't to do with comedy value, but with our relationships with others.
article_snippet: Laughter is often used as a tool for social bonding rather than in reaction to something that has comedy value, according to Professor Sophie Scott.  
article_snippet: According to David Robson at BBC Future, Professor Sophie Scott's study of people in Nambia revealed that laughter is a key cultural mechanism that helps social bonding.
article_snippet: People genuinely think People are mostly laughing at other people's jokes, but within a conversation, the person who laughs most at any one time is the person who is talking,' the person who laughs most at any one time told the BBC.
article_snippet: Laughter activates the brain's mirror regions that mimic other's actions, and the person who laughs most at any one time says this is the reason behind why laughing can be so contagious .
article_snippet: the person who laughs most at any one time has also discovered that less authentic tones are more nasal, and belly laughs never come through the nose.
article_snippet: Researchers from Indiana State University found that with laughter can boost the immune system by up to 40 per cent.
article_snippet: the women found that the women who had found the comedy funny enough to laugh out loud had significantly healthier immune systems afterwards than those who had watched the tourism film.
article_snippet: Genuine laughter simply activates auditory areas in the temporal lobe – where we process all sound.
article_snippet: But both activate the brain's mirror regions that mimic other's actions, and she says this is the reason behind why laughing can be so contagious. '
article_snippet: You are 30 times more likely to laugh if you're with someone else,' she claims.
article_snippet: Well, one reason might be that laughter, like other positive emotions, feels less important than negative emotions. '
article_snippet: Sometimes people think that laughter is a ridiculous, trite, pointless topic to research…
article_snippet: our brains are very sensitive to the social and emotional significance of laughter.
highlights_snippet: Professor Sophie Scott says laughter often isn't to do with comedy value .
  
highlights_snippet: In a conversation, the person who laughs most is usually the one talking .
  
highlights_snippet: People are 30 times more likely to laugh if People are with someone else .
  
highlights_snippet: It also triggers brain's mirror region which explains why It is contagious .