The first two studies investigated reactions to several different types of humorous comments. Participants indicated they would be significantly more likely to continue interacting with a friend who used adaptive self-enhancing or affiliative humor rather than maladaptive aggressive or self-defeating humor; with the most detrimental effects being evident for aggressive humor. Adaptive humorous ...

Linguistic ambiguity is a pervasive phenomenon in language. It occurs when word, phrase, or sentence has more than one meaning. Although it often considered problem since may cause confusion and hinder the precise understanding of language, its own value. enriches language produces positive effects such as creating irony adding sort humor. This study focuses on how lexical ambiguity, type lingu...

Abstract Adding to research on internet memes and humor, this study examines a set of image macros related specific viral media event (i.e., “cash me ousside”). This particular meme is linked popular catchphrase uttered by young teenage girl, who appeared 2016 episode the U.S. television talk show, Dr. Phil. We compiled dataset 220 from three online platforms. Our analysis focuses various forms...

Humor is one of the characteristics Sundanese people in West Java. This not only seen their conversations about everyday matters but also serious and sacred issues. They sometimes faced these issues by remaining relaxed laughing. This, for instance, can be figure Haji Hasan Mustapa, a Great Penghulu Kutaraja Bandung during Dutch colonial period. study focuses on 209 anecdotes Mustapa that his s...

Irony is a kind of figurative language used by a speaker to say something that contrasts with the context and, to some extent, lends humor to a situation. However, little is known about the brain regions that specifically support the processing of these two common features of irony. The present study had two main aims: (i) investigate the neural basis of irony processing, by delivering short ir...

This article is intended to engage others in a dialogue about the role and meaning of jokes about suicide. Types of jokes involving suicide are examined to distinguish the different types of humor involved. A sample of 118 recent political cartoons in an online website was downloaded, of which 73 concerned suicide bombers. Examples of suicide cartons and jokes involving disparagement, incongrui...

Disparagement humor refers to communication that derogates or denigrates a certain target but elicits amusement. Blending two contradictory elements in terms of social approvability, the paradox disparagement has sparked three major questions: how does amusement arise from disparagement? What determines whether an attempt at is perceived be funny offensive? are unique aftereffects this...