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The Sense Of Humor

Researchers have theorized that a sense of humor is made up of six basic variables:

  1. the cognitive ability to create or understand jokes
  2. an appreciation, and enjoyment of jokes
  3. behavior patterns of joking and laughing
  4. cheerful or humorous temperament,
  5. a bemused attitude about life
  6. a strategy of using humor in the face of adversity. 

A sense of humor, then, can mean either being funny or enjoying funny things.

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The Type Of Humor You Consume And Share Matters

Humor can be positive, when it’s not intended to belittle or harm others, or when one laughs at one’s own circumstances. It can also be negative, when it attacks others or when one belittles oneself. 

Positive humor is associated with self-esteem, o...

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Laughter As A Social Lubricant

Laughter As A Social Lubricant

Only 10 to15 percent of laughing is due to anything even remotely humorous. Much of the rest is meant to display emotions such as agreement or simple conviviality.

Laughter itself is what brings a lot of humor’s benefits, not necessarily making other people laugh. L...

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Improve Your Life With Humor

  • Reject grimness.
  • Don’t worry about being funny. It’s better to consume humor than to supply it.
  • Negative, hurtful, or excessively dark jokes are a corrosive force on your and others’ well-being. This kind of humor tends to be nihilistic as opposed to lighthearted.

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E. B. White

"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.”

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Timing Is Everything

Researchers studying humor in the face of tragedy have found that jokes can indeed help people cope with grievances and loss. However, the joke can’t be too close to or too far from the event in time

Tell a joke during a horrific natural disaster and you will be shunn...

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Types Of Humor

Researchers described four types of humor:

  • Affiliative humor: this is the humor designed to enhance social bonds.
  • Self-enhancing humor: this is similar to having a humorous, playful view of life in general.
  • Aggressive humor

The humor effect defined

The humor effect defined

The humor effect is a psychological phenomenon that causes people to remember information better when that information is perceived as funny or humorous.

The use of humor enhances people’s memory, whether they are trying to remember verbal in...

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