PSYCH 1101 Lecture 36: Humor Part 2
27 Nov 2017
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Provine"s studies: people were observed just before they laughed, women tended to laugh more than men. Unless men were listening to men: the talked laughed 50% more than the listener, typical phrases that evoked laughter are not funny out of context (see you later, i know, etc. ) Laughter acts as a social lubricant 90% of the time: laughter is not always an indicator of humor, only about 10% of the time, societal norms dictate how commonly people laugh, at what they laugh. Benign violation theory of humor: humor results when a comment is not likely to be seriously harmful, but is. "mean" in some slight capacity: norms of violation, how offensive/hurtful something is, has changed over time. Tension release theory: the natural response to the release of tension is to laugh, morreall: laughter has biological origins in shared expression at the passing of danger.
