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 consensus about which of these three theories of humor is most viable, though the incongruity...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Humour (disambiguation) (redirect from Humor (disambiguation))
Suceava County, Romania Humor: International Journal of Humor Research Wikipedia:Humor, about using humor on Wikipedia Anatomic fluids adjacent to lens of vertebrate...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Elliott Oring (category Humor researchers)
serves on the Editorial Boards of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. and Journal of Folklore Research. In 2010-2011 he served as President...
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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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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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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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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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Pun (redirect from Lowest form of humor)
"Script opposition and logical mechanism in punning". Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. 17 (4): 381–392. doi:10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.381. S2CID 144409644...
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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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(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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Comic timing (category Humor research)
Stand-up comedy and the professional Ethos of laughter. Bristol Shorts Research. UK: Bristol University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-5292-0015-7. Gordillo's...
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