Sophie Scott
speaker
374 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Sophie Scott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, they were anticipating negativity.
They were not in a good mood with me.
But that's not why the laughter happened.
In fact, the laughter was me looking at a student going, what have you done?
Seriously, what's going on here?
And the student laughed because she was embarrassed.
But it didn't matter.
It didn't matter what I said.
So the complexity is manifold.
It's complex in terms of why we produce it.
And it's complex in terms of how somebody perceives it and how they choose to interpret it.
I suspect probably one of the nice things about spontaneous laughter, because you feel really good when you've been laughing anyway, but spontaneous laughter, it sounds like the sun coming out and it feels wonderful.
You do get big physiological changes when you laugh full stop, but particularly if you start laughing hard, like a real spontaneous laugh.
So you get a change in the uptake of the body's naturally circulating painkillers, which are endorphins.
And that's why you feel buzzy and good when you've been laughing.
It's exactly the same as anything you might do after exercise, which is when you also get an endorphin hit.
You get a runner's high when you've been laughing.
You also get a reduction in adrenaline and that endorphin buzz you get from any kind of laughter, even really fakes laughter.
It seems to be to do with how you're engaging your rib cage.
But you also get a change in adrenaline.
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