Are Aggressive Cartoons Really Funnier? A Replication

Are Aggressive Cartoons Really Funnier? : A Replication

Research has found that more aggressive cartoons are perceived as funnier. The current study (N = 106; 16 cartoons) examined this finding in more detail by additionally including painfulness and cleverness rankings of cartoons, and by examining possible moderating effects of different humor styles, self-esteem (explicit, implicit), and social desirability. Aggressive or painful cartoons were no...

Is aggressive digital papillary adenocarcinoma really aggressive digital papillary adenocarcinoma?

Is aggressive digital papillary adenocarcinoma (ADPA) really aggressive? Does it only occur at digital location? Does it always have microscopic papillary features? Is it really adenocarcinoma? Let’s us address these questions one by one. Is ADPA aggressive? From the term, namely, aggressive digital papillary adenocarcinoma, one would interpret this as high grade malignant tumor with grim progn...

Robots Make Things Funnier

We evaluate the influence robots can have on the perceived funniness of jokes. We let people grade how funny simple word play jokes are, and vary the presentation method. The jokes are presented as text only or said by a small robot. The same joke is rated significantly higher when presented by the robot. We also let one robot tell a joke and have one more robot either laugh, boo, or do nothing...

Roles Are Really Great!

We present a new role system for specifying changing referencing relationships of heap objects. The role of an object depends, in large part, on its aliasing relationships with other objects, with the role of each object changing as its aliasing relationships change. Roles therefore capture important object and data structure properties and provide useful information about how the actions of th...

Are Methods Really Useful?