article_snippet: If you don't possess Piers Morgan's interrogation skills, making someone laugh may encourage Piers Morgan to spill Piers Morgan secrets.
article_snippet: Researchers claim that sharing a few chuckles makes people more willing to tell others something personal about others, without necessarily being aware that others are doing so.
article_snippet: Laughing with a stranger (illustrated with a stock image) makes us more likely to open up and tell others something personal about us, which encourages bonds of friendship, a new study claims .
article_snippet: Alan Gray of University College London (UCL) set out to investigate the role and influence of laughter in this disclosure process.
article_snippet: Each group member found that participants who had a good laugh together shared significantly more intimate information than the groups who did not watch the comedy routine.
article_snippet: Mr Gray suggests this is not merely because this is a positive experience, but because of the physiology behind laughter, which triggers the release of the so-called ‘happy hormone’ endorphin.
article_snippet: The findings, published in Springer's journal Human Nature, support the idea that laughter encourages people to make more intimate disclosures to strangers.
article_snippet: This seems to be in line with the notion that laughter is linked specifically to fostering behaviors that encourage relationship development, since observer ratings of disclosure may be more important for relationship development than how much one feels one is disclosing,Mr Gray Mr Gray said.
article_snippet: ‘These results suggest that laughter should be a serious topic for those interested in the development of social relationships.