Laugh! It Will Help Us Survive Coronavirus

While a health crisis with this severity is new, the use of dark humor as a coping mechanism. Laughing, even when the world falls apart, releases dopamine, the body chemical that makes you feel pleasure. The benign-violation theory โ€” which explains that laughing at stuff that could kill us makes those threats easier to handle โ€” also makes sense of this juxtaposition between chuckles and fear.