This article explores humor’s impact on cognitive processing of political messages. Although recent research has pointed to effects of late-night comedy viewing on political attitudes and cognitions (Moy, Xenos, & Hess, 2003; Young, 2004, 2006), scant attention has been paid to the development of a theoretical model to account for these outcomes. This manuscript posits that humor suspends argum...

In pursuit of the long-term goal of developing a general theory of humour, it is reasonable to study certain limited forms of humorous artefact in detail. One obvious class of humour to consider is verbally expressed humour, and in particular jokes. We propose a methodology for exploring this subarea. The central idea is to devise detailed symbolic descriptions of the internal linguistic struct...

Computers are very good at performing many tasks that difficult for humans, such as solving complicated math problems or predicting the weather. But there things people do better than computers. Humor—that is, telling jokes and knowing when something is funny—is one of computers cannot well humans. In this article, you will learn why it hard to understand jokes. You also about artificial intell...

The article aims to analyze jokes in Ukrainian laughter culture context. It stresses on the chosen topic relevance and researchers' growing in- terest national identity, character, spiritual specific features various phenomena associated with humor, satire, picture of world. attempts determine place peculiarities a separate series modern jokes, i.e. about godfathers. Special attention is paid j...

The AAB pattern consists of two similar events followed by a third dissimilar event. The prevalence of this pattern in the aesthetic domain may be explained as violation of expectation: A minimum of two iterations is required to establish a repetitive pattern; once established, it is most efficient to promptly violate the expected continuance of the pattern to produce the maximal aesthetic effe...

There is a class of joke which consists of an anecdote , which is sometimes quite long and often has no inherently humorous content, followed by a punchline which is a distorted form of some well-known phrase, proverb or quotation. Usually the punchline purports to summarise or draw a moral from the preceding story. This genre has some unusual aspects, from the viewpoint of conventional claims ...

Three studies investigated the authenticity of prejudice-related discrepancies. A comprehensive discrepancy questionnaire was developed (Study 1), which yielded small as well as large discrepancy scores. Study 2 indicated that discrepancy scores were stable, and personality could not account for the relation between discrepancies and their affective consequences. In Study 3, low-prejudice parti...

Cognitive Science research on how to sequence examples to facilitate learning and memory has implications for how to structure information to facilitate its social distribution. Specifically, repetition among obviously similar items capitalizes on comparison to establish a pattern, enabling a final contrasting item to break the pattern and be interesting. We term this the Repetition-Shift plot ...