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  2. Humor in Freud - Wikipedia

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    The superego allowed the ego to generate humor. [1] A benevolent superego allowed a light and comforting type of humor, while a harsh superego created a biting and sarcastic type of humor. [3] A very harsh superego suppressed humor altogether. [2] [3] Freud’s humor theory, like most of his ideas, was based on a dynamic among id, ego, and ...

  3. The Bird of Happiness (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Bird of Happiness (Spanish: El pájaro de la felicidad) is a 1993 Spanish drama film directed by Pilar Miró. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. [1] It was nominated for the 1994 Goya Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound and won the Best Cinematography award (José Luis Alcaine). [2]

  4. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    Relief theory suggests humor is a mechanism for pent-up emotions or tension through emotional relief. In this theory, laughter serves as a homeostatic mechanism by which psychological stress is reduced [1] [2] [6] Humor may thus facilitate ease of the tension caused by one's fears, for example.

  5. Humour - Wikipedia

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    Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks , which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours ( Latin : humor , "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.

  6. Stumbling on Happiness - Wikipedia

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    Stumbling on Happiness has six sections labeled Prospection, Subjectivity, Realism, Presentism, Rationalization, and Corrigibility. [2] A summary of each follows. In the Prospection section Gilbert contends that humans are most special because of their ability to imagine. Our large frontal lobes biol

  7. Humorist - Wikipedia

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    The nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of humor (a German loanword from English) to mean any type of comedy. A humorist is adept at seeing the humor in a situation or aspect of life and relating it, usually through a story; the comedian generally concentrates on jokes designed to invoke instantaneous ...

  8. Laughter - Wikipedia

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    A 1999 study by two humor researchers asked 80 people to keep a daily laughter record, and found they laughed an average of 18 times per day. However, their study also found a wide range, with some people laughing as many as 89 times per day, and others laughing as few as 0 times per day.

  9. Comedy of humours - Wikipedia

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    The comedy of humours is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits overriding traits or 'humours' that dominate their personality, desires and conduct.