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  2. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    There are many theories of humor which attempt to explain what it is, what social functions it serves, and what would be considered humorous. Although various classical theories of humor and laughter may be found, in contemporary academic literature, three theories of humor appear repeatedly: relief theory, superiority theory, and incongruity ...

  3. Humor research - Wikipedia

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    Humor research (also humor studies) is a multifaceted field which enters the domains of linguistics, history, and literature. Research in humor has been done to understand the psychological and physiological effects, both positive and negative, on a person or groups of people.

  4. Humour - Wikipedia

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    Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. The prevailing types of theories attempting to account for the existence of humour include psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider humour-induced behaviour to be very healthy; spiritual theories, which may, for instance, consider humour to be a "gift from God"; and theories which consider humour to ...

  5. List of humor research publications - Wikipedia

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    In this book Attardo finalizes the general theory of verbal humour suggested by him and Victor Raskin in 1991, [1] known for some time under the name of semantic script theory of humour (SSTH) (2023) Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor. Anthem Press. Arthur Asa Berger. An Anatomy of Humor, 1993, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0494-8

  6. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious - Wikipedia

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    Analysis on elements and functions of laughter and humor date back to Ancient Greece (384 BCE to 322 BCE) and Roman empire (106—43 B.C.E). Most notably, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero formulated early theories on the function of humor and laughter and paved the way for further philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes (17th century) to expand their positions.

  7. Misattribution theory of humor - Wikipedia

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    The formal theory is attributed to Zillmann & Bryant (1980) in their article, "Misattribution Theory of Tendentious Humor", published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. They derived the critical concepts of the theory from Sigmund Freud 's Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious , originally published in 1905.

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  9. Joke - Wikipedia

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    While being a variant on the more general concepts of the incongruity theory of humour, it is the first theory to identify its approach as exclusively linguistic. The Script-based Semantic Theory of Humour (SSTH) begins by identifying two linguistic conditions which make a text funny. It then goes on to identify the mechanisms involved in ...