“In a neurological sense, laughing represents the shortest distance between two people because it instantly interlocks limbic systems. This immediate, involuntary reaction, as one researcher puts it, involves “the most direct communication possible between people – brain to brain – with our intellect just going for the ride, in what might be called a ‘limbic lock’.”
– Daniel Goleman, Primal Leadership
I’m pretty sure he stole that from the comedian Victor Borge, by the way, whom I recall saying “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
Anyway, Goleman goes on to say that research shows that interviewees who laugh are more likely to get the job and that bosses who laugh are more likely to get on with, and get the most out of, the people they work with.
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