Humor research (also humor studies) is a multifaceted field which enters the domains of linguistics, history, and literature. Research in humor has been...
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incongruity theory. Among current humor researchers, there is yet no perfect consensus about which of these three theories of humor is most valid, though the...
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Humor styles are a subject of research in the field of personality psychology that focuses on the ways in which individuals differ in their use of humor...
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Sigmund Freud noticed that humor, like dreams, can be related to unconscious content. In the 1905 book Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (German:...
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Humour (redirect from Sense of humor)
English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine...
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Joke (section Joke and humour research)
Amy (2008). "Historical Views of Humor" (PDF). In Raskin, Victor (ed.). Primer of Humor Research: Humor Research 8. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter...
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Computational humor is a branch of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence which uses computers in humor research. It is a relatively new...
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publications in humor research, with brief annotations. The list includes books and scholarly journals that regularly cover articles in humor research. This list...
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literature and humor researchers now have a single theoretical framework, with which they can analyze and map any kind of verbal humor, including novels...
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Surreal humour (redirect from Absurdist humor)
"'Neo-Dadaism': Absurdist Humor and the Millennial Generation". Medium. Chapman, Antony J.; Foot, Hugh C., eds. (1977). It's A Funny Thing, Humor. Pergamon Press...
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Humor: International Journal of Humor Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Walter de Gruyter on behalf of the International Society...
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Peter McGraw (redirect from The Humor Code)
and his Humor Code co-author Joel Warner worked with Adrian Ward and Caleb Warren, and other members of the Humor Research Lab to create the Humor Algorithm...
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Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek...
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Katagelasticism (section Research)
"Investigating the humor of gelotophobes: Does feeling ridiculous equal being humorless?" (PDF). Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. 22 (1–2): 111–143...
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Misattribution is one of many theories of humor that describes an audience's inability to identify exactly why they find a joke to be funny. The formal...
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Patch Adams (category Humor researchers)
Giraffe Project. ISBN 978-1-893805-00-2. LCCN 99097193. Clown Care Humor research "Doctor in a Clown Suit Battles Ills of His Profession". New York Times...
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the regime. Chaya Ostrower [he], a pioneer in Holocaust humor research, maintained that humor was a defense mechanism that helped to endure the atrocities...
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contrasted with comedy, as in the seriocomedy. In the theory of humor, one must have a sense of humor and a sense of seriousness to distinguish what is supposed...
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use of language, the scene is discussed in Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research as an instance where the expected actions of the characters—the Romans...
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of the shaggy dog story. In fact, some researchers see the "shaggy dog story" as a type of anti-joke. Anti-humor is described as a form of irony or reversal...
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World's funniest joke (category Humor research)
of his research. For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes. Purposes of the research included...
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Toilet humour (redirect from Outhouse humor)
scatology); urination; flatulence, in which case it is called flatulence humor; or, to a lesser extent, vomiting and other bodily functions. Toilet humour...
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Irony poisoning (category Humor research)
used to describe the normalization of extremist views through the use of humor, particularly in online spaces. The New York Times used the term to describe...
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Kurt Vonnegut (category Humor researchers)
Peter C.; Tally, Robert T. Jr. (2012). "Vonnegut's sense of humor". Studies in American Humor. 3 (26): 7–11. doi:10.5325/studamerhumor.26.2012.0007. ISSN 0095-280X...
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In-joke (category Humor research)
in-joke can also be used as a subtext, where people in the know may find humor in something not explicitly spoken. They may even apologize for doing so...
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Good Humor is a Good Humor-Breyers brand of ice cream started by Harry Burt in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, in the early 1920s with the Good Humor bar...
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Rod A. Martin (category Humor researchers)
retired Canadian academic, specializing in clinical psychology and humor research. After obtaining a B.A (1979 ) in theology then an M.A (1981) and PhD...
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(2008). "A primer for the Linguistics of Humor". In Raskin, Victor (ed.). Primer of Humor Research: Humor Research 8. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter...
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List of publications in philosophy Bibliography of sociology List of humor research publications List of publications in anthropology List of publications...
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Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic Revisited". Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. 20 (1): 49–71. doi:10.1515/HUMOR.2007.003. S2CID 144703655. Radiolab...
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