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 ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

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