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Self-referential humor, also known as self-reflexive humor, self-aware humor, or meta humor, is a type of comedic expression [1] that—either directed toward some other subject, or openly directed toward itself—is self-referential in some way, intentionally alluding to the very person who is expressing the humor in a comedic fashion, or to some specific aspect of that same comedic expression.
Self-reference is studied and has applications in mathematics, philosophy, computer programming, second-order cybernetics, and linguistics, as well as in humor. Self-referential statements are sometimes paradoxical , and can also be considered recursive .
For example: in ancient Zen Buddhism stories or in the Tao writings of Chuang Tzu and the like, you can find a lot of humor. But this humor has more of a philosophical meaning and function. So you could call this "metahumor". Where as a joke about a joke is still simply a joke.
First, it's clearly a stylistic guideline, i.e. don't tell people what you're going to tell them and where, just tell 'em. Second, the joke is not a self-reference to Wikipedia, but to the article itself. Third, an article about self-reference should I think be exempt from a general guideline against self-reference. IMHO a joke is justifiable ...
A meta-analysis by Symons and Johnson (1997) showed self-reference resulting in better memory in comparison to tasks relying on semantic encoding or other-referent encoding. According to Symons and Johnson, self-referencing questions elicit elaboration and organization in memory, both of which creating a deeper encoding and thus facilitate ...
Never before has Twitter played such a prominent role in an election. If Clinton or Trump wants to say something or react to news — even if it's at 3 a.m. — they don't need to coordinate a press conference.
The self-reference effect is a tendency for people to encode information differently depending on whether they are implicated in the information. When people are ...
Jada Pinkett Smith is getting candid about her approach to sex scenes on camera. “No nudity,” she said on Lena Waithe’s Lemonada Media podcast Legacy Talk.. “That was always the case for ...