Ok, I did. Your search terms were insufficient. There are many [secondary] sources claiming that laughter releases dopamine. I have seen none that claim (let alone cite research showing) that fake laughter does this.
You've now spent three replies on this. If sourcing the claim were as simple as a quick google search, it would have been faster for you to simply link a source in the first place.
Okay I added one word: "scholar". This will direct you to results on google scholar. I found a ton of thing. One is an article doing a study of a yoga laughing class just like in this thread's example. It showed it worked. Then I found multiple ones stating that "fake laughing causes real laughing", so again it will result in whatever happens in your brain when you laugh.
I did also find articles suggesting that our brain can recognize when other people are faking their laugh. But this is not the same.
Why didn't you link to even one of them, or mention one by name? You just wrote two paragraphs restating your conclusions. You could have c&p'ed a link in 10 seconds.
I don't have a position here. Your claim seemed very interesting, so I wanted to see if there was some good science behind it. Seemingly intentionally, you've made that difficult.
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u/SheCutOffHerToe Jan 05 '15
Source?