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...

Much has been written about humor and even sarcasm automatic recognition on Twitter. The task of classifying humorous tweets according to the type of humor has not been confronted so far, as far as we know. This research is aimed at applying classification and other NLP algorithms to the challenging task of automatically identifying the type and topic of humorous messages on Twitter. To achieve...

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 ...

This thesis represents an attempt to show how recent research in pragmatic theory can contribute to our understanding of humour. Two inferential theories have been selected: speech act theory and relevance theory. In addition, I have looked at the modification of the speech act model proposed by Leech. An exposition of each theory is followed by an account of how these theories can be applied t...

The subculture of humorous images is a pervasive phenomenon on the Internet. Some social media websites (e.g. 9GAG1, Reddit and 4chan) provide platforms for people to share their images and comments. These websites are often occupied by experienced users, and most of the newcomers have trouble fitting in such communities. Among all the types of humorous images, Internet memes are relatively har...

The title and cover was enough to tempt me, as the book seemed like a humorous story about the life of a surgeon. But after reading, it was more than that.

The idea of this research was born on 26 May 2022. following day, we saw Elon Musk’s tweet from 2022: ‘Politics is a sadness generator’. We accepted the challenge to refute statement and prove that there much space for humour in political discourse. study focuses humorous tweets produced period first 100 days 2022 Russian invasion Ukraine criteria according which they may be classified further ...

This study aimed to demonstrate that the cognitive demands involved in humor processing can attenuate negative emotions. A primary aspect of humor is that it poses cognitive demands needed for incongruency resolution. On the basis of findings that cognitive distraction prevents mood-congruent processing, the authors hypothesized that humorous stimuli attenuate negative emotions to a greater ext...