So, making fun of yourself boosts the chances that your humor will be well received. Here’s a psychology-related example from Rodney Dangerfield: “I went to the psychiatrist, and he says ...

By disguising expressions of prejudice in a cloak of fun and frivolity, disparagement humor, like the jokes above, appears harmless and trivial. However, a large and growing body of psychology ...

Adam Mastroianni is serious about humor. He graduated in June with a degree from Princeton's psychology department, where he wrote his senior thesis on the psychology of humor. He started working on ...

Why Do We Laugh? Unravel the psychological and physiological reasons behind humor and why it plays such an essential role in our lives. Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn judge blocking ...

Assistant Professor, Psychology, Fort Lewis College, whose research focuses on the consequences of disparagement humor, among other things When I’m speculating about the reasons why humor is ...

Hugelshofer suggested that humor acts as a buffer against depression ... And if that’s the case, is there something about the psychology of comedians that makes them better able to tap into ...

“Specifically, we propose that sexist humor acts as a ‘releaser’ of prejudice,” says one of the researchers. A research project led by a Western Carolina University psychology professor ...

More featuring the NFC Champion San Francisco 49ers. Humor is a psychological facet that advertisers use to build on the implicit impressions of consumers and ultimately expand on generational ...

As April Fools’ Day is just around the corner, when better to look at the psychology of jokes? Over the years, April Fools’ Day has become larger than life, especially with social media ...

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