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If appreciating humor is good exercise for our brains, then writing a joke is exercise on steroids.
如果欣賞笑話對大腦是很好的鍛煉，那么寫笑話就是打了類固醇的運動。
Humor helps our cognition in less obvious ways too. Laughter is a natural stress reliever,
幽默也以不那么明顯的方式幫助我們的認知功能。笑是一種自然釋放壓力的方式，
and our brains work better when they aren't slowed down by a fog of worry.
當我們的大腦不被諸多煩惱拖累時，它們的工作會更好。
In 2014, researchers in California demonstrated that elderly subjects
2014年，加州的研究人員表明，年長的研究對象
who watched a funny video experienced significant improvements in their ability to learn and retain new information,
觀看搞笑視頻后，學習和獲取新信息的能力有顯著的提升。
possibly because the feelings of mirth reduced levels of cortisol, a stress hormone that has been shown to hinder recall.
可能是因為快樂的感覺降低了皮質醇的水平，皮質醇是一種被證明會阻礙記憶的應激激素。
A good joke can function as a release valve for the whole body.
一個好的笑話有作為全身放氣閥的功能。
"Humor can help reframe stressors, challenges, or difficulties that seem insurmountable to a person,"
幽默可以幫助一個人重新定義壓力、挑戰或看似無法克服的困難?！?/div>
says Tom Ford, a social psychologist at Western Carolina University and a coauthor of The Psychology of Humor.
西卡羅萊納大學的社會心理學家、《幽默心理學》的合著者福特表示。
"If one is able to make light of a stressor or challenge, then it doesn't seem so big. It seems more manageable."
“如果人們可以看輕壓力或挑戰的話，那它就顯得不那么大了。它就更加容易控制了?！?/p>
Researchers in Hong Kong, for instance, demonstrated that when nursing home patients with chronic pain enjoyed jokes, funny books and videos,
比如，香港的研究人員表示，當患有慢性疼痛的療養院病人每周享受笑話、有趣的書籍和視頻，
and goofy singing and dancing on a weekly basis, their perception of pain and loneliness decreased significantly.
傻傻的唱歌跳舞時，他們對痛苦和孤獨的感覺明顯下降。
They also felt happier and more satisfied with life.
他們也感到更快樂，對生活更滿意。
Others have demonstrated that laughter can be associated with increased blood flow,
其他人則表明，笑和血流量增加、免疫反應增強、
improved immune response, lower blood sugar levels, and better sleep.
血糖下降和更好的睡眠有關。
You don't have to write a joke to reap the benefits. Merely experiencing humor will do the trick.
你不必通過寫笑話來創造收益。僅僅體驗幽默就可以達到目的。
But there might be an even stronger reason that a sense of humor is hard-wired into the human genome.
但是幽默感和人類基因緊密聯系可能還有更重要的原因。
Not only does humor make us smarter and healthier, but it may also make us more attractive to the opposite sex.
幽默不僅能讓我們更聰明、更健康，還能讓我們對異性更有吸引力。
"There's a gigantic study," Biederman notes, "that's been done in 38 cultures.
彼得曼說，“有一項在30種文化里做過的重大的研究，
It turns out that in every culture, both males and females desire their potential mates to be bright.
事實證明，在每種文化中，男性和女性都希望自己未來的伴侶是聰明的。
But we don't have our IQs tattooed on our forehead. How do we know that someone's intelligent?"
但是我們的智商沒有印在腦子上。我們怎么知道某個人是聰明的呢？”
