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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 theory. [ 1] These theories are used as building blocks for the rest of the theories. Among current humor researchers, there has yet to be a ...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations. The book was nominated for the 2003 Aventis ...
Psychological fiction. In literature, psychological fiction (also psychological realism) is a narrative genre that emphasizes interior characterization and motivation to explore the spiritual, emotional, and mental lives of its characters. The mode of narration examines the reasons for the behaviours of the character, which propel the plot and ...
That information that takes longer to read and is thought about more (processed with more difficulty) is more easily remembered. [174] See also levels-of-processing effect. Recency effect: A form of serial position effect where an item at the end of a list is easier to recall. This can be disrupted by the suffix effect. See also primacy effect.
Narrative psychology is a perspective in psychology concerned with the "storied nature of human conduct", [1] that is, how human beings deal with experience by observing stories and listening to the stories of others. Operating under the assumption that human activity and experience are filled with "meaning" and stories, rather than lawful ...
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. [ 1] It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. [ 2] Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions, and natural forces, such as seasons and weather.
Affect theory. Affect theory is a theory that seeks to organize affects, sometimes used interchangeably with emotions or subjectively experienced feelings, into discrete categories and to typify their physiological, social, interpersonal, and internalized manifestations. The conversation about affect theory has been taken up in psychology ...
Humor in Freud. Sigmund Freud noticed that humor, like dreams, can be related to unconscious content. [ 1] In the 1905 book Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious ( German: Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten ), as well as in the 1928 journal article Humor, Freud distinguished contentious jokes [ 2] from non-contentious or silly ...