The Frog Test: A Tool for Measuring Humor Theories' Validity and Humor Preferences
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The Frog Test: A Tool for Measuring Humor Theories' Validity and Humor Preferences
For over a century multiple theoretical accounts proposed different sets of necessary and sufficient conditions for distinguishing humorous from non-humorous stimuli. The theories ranged from Freud’s (1960/1905) expression of forbidden thoughts, superiority theories (e.g., Gruner, 2000), and benign violations (McGraw and Warren, 2010) to incongruity resolution (Suls, 1972), error detection (Hur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00040