Gelotologia
Gelotologia (a Graeco γέλως, γέλωτος 'risus') est investigatio risús et eius effectuum in corpore humano, plerumque in opinione psychologicá et physiologicá. Medici aliique exercitatores therapiam risús moti suadent. Gulielmus F. Fry in Universitate Stanfordiensi huic disciplinae insigniter favebat. Inter genera therapiae quae felicitate risuque utuntur sunt therapia felicitatis et risus, meditatio ridicula, et ioga ridicula.

Risus sanctus
Theoriae felicitatis

Notae

Bibliographia
Folkman, Susan, et Peter E. Nathan. 2010. The Oxford Handbook of Stress, Health, and Coping. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-537534-3.
Godfrey, Jodi R. 2004. "Toward optimal health: the experts discuss therapeutic humor." Journal of Women's Health 13, no 5 (Iunius)): 474–79. doi:10.1089/1540999041280972. PMID 15257840.
Höfner, E., et H. U. Schachtner. 1995. Das wäre doch gelacht! Humor und Provokation in der Therapie. Reinbek: Rowolth.
Johnson, S. 2003. "Emotions and the Brain." Discover' 24: N4. Editio interretialis.
Karwowski, Waldemar. 2006. International encyclopedia of ergonomics and human factors. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-415-30430-6.
Kawakami, K., et al. 2006. "Origins of smile and laughter: A preliminary study." Early Human Development 82: 61-66. PDF.
Klein, Allen. 1989. The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All That Not-So-Funny Stuff. Angelopoli: Tarcher/Putnam.
Klein, Allen. 1998. The Courage to Laugh: Humor, Hope, and Healing in the Face of Death and Dying. Angelopoli: Tarcher/Putnam.
Koller, D., et. C. Gryski. 2007. "The Life Threatened Child and the Life Enhancing Clown: Towards a Model of Therapeutic Clowning" Journal of Evidence-Based and Complementary Medicine 5 (1): 17-35. Editio interretialis.
Krois, John Michael. 2007. Embodiment in cognition and culture. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-5207-4.
Liebertz, Charmaine. 2005. "A Healthy Laugh." Scientific American, 21 Septembris 2005.
Mahoney, Michael J. 2003. Constructive psychotherapy: a practical guide. Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1-57230-902-9.
Panksepp, J., et J. Burgdorf. 2003. "'Laughing' rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy?" Physiology & Behavior 79: 533-47. PDF.
Rankin-Box, Denise F. 2001. The nurse's handbook of complementary therapies. Elsevier Health Sciences. ISBN 978-0-7020-2651-5.
Walter M., B. Hänni, M. Haug, I. Amrhein, E. Krebs-Roubicek, F. Müller-Spahn, et E. Savaskan. 2007. "Humour therapy in patients with late-life depression or Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study." International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry'' 22, no. 1 (Ianuarius): 77-83. PMID 16977676.

Nexus externi
Therapia felicitatis apud American Cancer Society.

Felicitas
Mores humani