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While humor arousal can help to modulate anger arousal, not every form of humor is effective. By engaging in certain ...
But it’s important to laugh at yourself the right way. According to a study published in The Journal of Psychology, how you laugh at yourself significantly impacts your sense of self-worth and ...
In an interview with South African scholar Jennalee Donian, we discuss how humor can be used to spotlight social inequality, ...
The Scranton Area Community Foundation recently awarded the Abington Community Library with a grant from the donor-advised Humor Therapy Fund for their “Laughter Lab” project to be held in ...
An evening show last week at the Hollywood Improv comedy club included poop jokes, a song about young people being too woke and a raunchy impression of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. There were no quips ...
Safety Stache, they said, is a character that adds a bit of fun and humor to the messaging. “It’s been really fun to be such a famous ambassador for the safety message for the fire department. I ...
(Shout-out to the peerless Señor Householder.) When someone finally asked him about his sense of humor, he attributed it to growing up during Francisco Franco’s regime: Under a repressive ...
I have given it a nickname to lighten things up a bit, but you don’t want to know what it is. You could say that I’m keeping my sense of … humor. I’ll give you a little bit of time to figure out why ...
By Michael S. Rosenwald In March of 1983, a public relations official at Boston University asked Joseph Boskin, a scholar of humor in the history department, whether he knew anything about the ...
The market is always right, so they say – but sometimes, it takes a while to come to its conclusion. In extreme times – and these are an example – it can take people time to adjust to the ...
NBC’s Dateline episode titled The Secret follows psychology professor Dr. Norma Patricia Esparza, who was found guilty of manslaughter in 2016 for the 1995 murder of Gonzalo Ramirez. The synopsis of ...