To begin, an example. Two friends in their 20s (called ‘L’ who is female, and ‘R’ who is male) are conversing : L: “What did the big cup say to the little cup?” R: (sarcastically) “I’m bigger than you?” L: “No, Nothing. Cups can’t talk”. R: (completely ignoring L) “I can hold more water than […]
Tag: Humor
Can Computers Create Humour?
Can Computers Create Humour? If the following jokes make you laugh, then the answer maybe yes. • What is the difference between a desolate amusement and a smart impact ? One is a bleak show, the other is a chic blow. • What kind of a temperature is a son ? A boy-ling […]
McGraw & Warren, humor zeroing
Marketing researchers zero in, ever further, on understanding how people react to theoretically humorous stimuli. Investigator Dan Goldstein alerts us to a new study which says: [In one experiment] participants read one of two versions of a scenario adapted from Haidt et al. (1993) as part of an ostensibly unrelated experiment. Participants either read about […]
Self-denigrating humor value: Japan
A rare study of the vale of self-denigrating humor in Japan: “The value of constructing relationships through self-denigrating humor and regional-cultural differences in Japan: A focus on blunder-telling behavior,” Sora Niwa and Shun’ichi Maruno, Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, 3(2), 2009, 133-154. Here is a sampling of questions used in the research: