George Bonanno
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364 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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People who are given trigger warnings often are more anxious than people who didn't get trigger warnings, didn't receive them.
The research shows quite clearly that most people, even people who've recently lost a spouse within the last few months, when we did interviews, we found that the majority of people were showing genuine laughter and smiling during the interview.
And that's because these are very social processes.
Most of the time when we laugh and smile, almost all the time, it's with other people.
And they're very pro-social.
They're contagious.
They connect us to other people.
And what we've seen in our research with grief is that people kind of go in and out of these phases.
You might see somebody crying and holding their head
and shaking their head because they're so upset.
And then 30 seconds later, they're laughing.
They still have tears on their face, and they're laughing about something they remembered.
And that laughter, we posited that laughter is a kind of a way to reconnect with the person and almost reward the person for listening, but also rewarding ourselves, letting us feel connected to somebody else.
It's a very, very human process.
There's been a kind of a prohibition about it for a number of years because somehow it's not respectful.
It means you don't care.
But in fact, it actually does mean you care enough to live your life.
What I had done in my own life was I began to talk with my father and I would talk with him.
And this is primarily when I had my own children.
And so I was now a father.
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