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| | Humor theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | From Hippocrates onward, the humor theory was the most commonly held view of the human body until the nineteeth century and the understanding of the circulation of blood. | | | Through the neo-classical revival in Europe, the humor theory dominated medical practice, and the theory of humoral types made periodic appearance in drama. | | | Such typically "eighteenth century" practices as bleeding a sick person, or applying hot cups to a person, were, in fact, based on the humor theory of surpluses of fluids (blood and bile in those cases). |
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| | Theory |
| | Some are theories about the function of humor (predominantly to vent or conserve psychic energy), some are stimulus theories (predominantly incongruity theories, with or without resolution), and some are response theories (experiencing a pleasant cognitive shift and/or a feeling of mastery). | | | The use of humor also aids the therapist in challenging the perspectives of clients in cognitive behavioral therapy (Epstein, 1997). | | | Although the advocates of various theories debate one another with considerable acrimony, it seems to this author at least that the existing theories of humor can be integrated in the following way" (a) incongruity of some sort is required to get the attention of receivers (perk up their ears). |
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http://myweb.brooklyn.liu.edu/jlyttle/Humor/Theory.htm
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| | Mixing Memory: By Request: Cognitive Science of Humor |
| | The earliest modern psychological theory of humor, of course, was Freud's. | | | Today, most theories, particularly in cognitive science, involve incongruity resolution (Freudian theories, usually called arousal-relief, or just relief theories, are still used by some nonscientists, as are disparagement theories). | | | In fact, because the cognitive scientists who've constructed theories of humor have almost all been linguists, there has been very little empirical testing of even the basic assumptions of these theories, such as the activation of competing scripts/schemas, or the need for the resolution of ambiguity. |
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http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2004/11/by-request-cognitive-science-of-humor.html
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| | The Inner Eye Theory of Laughter: Mindreader Signals Cooperator Value by Wonil Edward Jung |
| | This theory is incorporated in the Inner Eye theory in the forms of the contrast between the false belief and the current belief of the laugher and the conflict between those who undergo relatively positive welfare changes and those who undergo relatively negative welfare changes. | | | In his theory of humor as a disabling mechanism, Chafe has argued that the purpose of humor is to prevent people “from acting upon or ‘taking seriously’ conditions and conclusions into which they are misled by the misapplication of natural processes of human reasoning” (Chafe, 1987). | | | The theory incorporates concepts from the theory of mind in cognitive science. |
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http://human-nature.com/ep/articles/ep01214253.html
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| | Monro's "Theories of Humor" |
| | This enables him to link his theory of humor with his theory of dream interpretation: dreams are also a means of eluding the censor. | | | Humor, according to incongruity theories, may be said to consist in the finding of "the inappropriate within the appropriate." It is not merely that unexpected connections are found between apparently dissimilar things: our notions of propriety are also involved. | | | Relief theories account admirably for laughter at indecency, malice, and nonsense (regarded as relief from "the governess, reason" [a reference back to Shopenhauer]) but are forced to concede that there is an intrinsic appeal in incongruity and word play that is quite independent of relief from restraint. |
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http://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/monro.html
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| | Humor Theory by Igor Krichtafovich [3] |
| | Humor is a primitive emotion, and its nature is explained with the simple-most means. | | | But the theory proved to be capable of explaining even that which at first had not been a subject of analysis. | | | Moreover, this theory does not even pose the task of answering the question: “why do people laugh?” In this sense the comparison of the semantic theory with the “theory” of magnets as bodies with poles seems quite natural. |
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http://www.lebed.com/HumorTheory/HumorTheoryfinal3.htm
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| | The relief theory is based on a psychological perspective, which holds that humor, through laughter, actually allows a release of “nervous energy,” and thus, humor is usually created by a “reduction of anxiety or a relaxation of strain” (Meyer, 1990). | | | The final theory of humor as it relates to persuasiveness is the superiority theory. | | | Many humor theorists believe all forms of humor exhibit some sort of “superiority” of one individual, object, or idea over another and as a result, that all uses of humor can at least somewhat be traced to this theory. |
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http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/williams/McFerron.doc
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| | Mid Frame |
| | In this case, the humor is functioning as positive punishment, the addition of an undesirable stimulus in order to reduce the likelihood of undesired behavior (Watson). | | | Similarly, Plato's theory of humor argues that we simultaneously feel pain and a sense of pleasure when we see others humiliated. | | | The reason humans use humor in the first place is twofold: it is a means to gain pleasure and to liberate painful affects. |
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http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Speech/rccs/theory55.htm#superiority
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| | Humor is Affective Absurdity |
| | These are all consequences of the theory's claim that the three conditions are necessary. | | | In discussing this theory, the subjective interpretations referred to by N and V may clearly be described in many stylistically different ways, which can lead to an unfortunate confusion as to whether or not the emotional categories referred to are well-defined. | | | That is, if there is a case of humor which lacks any of the three conditions, then the theory ``undergenerates'' and is false: the missing condition is not in fact necessary. |
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http://www.tomveatch.com/else/humor/paper/node2.html
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| | Olson, L. Humor in therapy: An analysis of its uses and its benefits (connectedness). | | | Sobol, H. The impact of humor on early adolescents' emotional and behavioral response to events. | | | McGuire, P. More psychologists are finding that discrete uses of humor promote healing in their patients. |
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http://www.professorlyttle.com/PhD/endnote2.htm
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| | Emotion Management in Grace Under Fire: An Evolution |
| | For example, we may use aggressive humor (a humor theory), to gain the upper hand in a threatening situation (a manipulation of emotion). | | | This theory was mainly Hobbes', who went so far as to say that those who use humor the most feel the most inferior, thereby having the greatest need to feel superior at someone else's expense (Berger 39). | | | In proving that Grace uses humor as emotion management to the point of evolving to a new genre of joke, it seems important at this point to revert back to the theories of humor once again. |
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http://cc.ysu.edu/~sattardo/tv/iden.htm
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| | Spinal Tap Fan Site: Stylistic Competencies, Musical Humor, and This is Spinal Tap |
| | His theory of humor, on the other hand, is based on the incongruity theory (60-84). | | | The third theory, found in the writing of Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer, is referred to as the “incongruity theory.” Our laughter is the result of some perceived incongruity between concept and object. | | | The superiority and relief theories might be used to unpack the humorous effects of these songs that occur in the other dimensions that this study does not directly address. |
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http://spinaltapfan.com/articles/covach.html
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| | Abhinavagupta's Conceptionof Humor - chapter 2 |
| | Though not a theory of humor, but only of laughter, it distinguishes between laughter as a binary-structured organismic variable (O) and as the physiological resolution of O into an externally measurable response R. Even if O may have corresponding objective structures in the body (or in the stimulus), it is primarily something given in experience. | | | With these preliminary clarifications, we are in the position to critically evaluate the relevance of Gurdjieff’s theory of laughter to the conception of hâsya in Indian tradition. | | | No doubt, where the moving impulse is determined or colored by a specific emotional motivation the positive or negative character of the former will correspond to that of the emotion itself. |
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http://www.svabhinava.org/HumorPhd/Thesis-02/Thesis-2.html
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| | Humor |
| | John points out that, however strange Kant's theory may be, it tends to rightly claim that humor is subjective. | | | Looking at Kant, Freud, and others, it seems that one of the problems with the theories they put forward about humor is their lack of familiarity with the data. | | | Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Vol. |
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http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/Humor.htm
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| | What Is Humor? |
| | Humor in a chaotic setting, or written in an uneven style can threaten our equilibrium, our need for order in the world. | | | When I write humor I do not keep in mind the psychological research on cognitive development. | | | Practical jokes are only funny to the brunt of the jokes if they don't feel offended or hurt, and even then usually only in retrospect since a successful practical joke usually involves some initial feeling of threat on the part of the recipient. |
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http://www.rickwalton.com/lang/whathumo.htm
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| | Humor Theory |
| | When Pertelote suggests to Chauntecleer that he take a laxative to relieve his imbalance of humors, she is suggesting a well-respected standard medical practice. | | | Classical medicine taught that the human body was governed by four fluids or humors, each tied to one of the prime elements. | | | The illustration at the top of the page shows a physician drawing blood, one of the common procedures to relieve the problems associated with excess blood in humor theory. |
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http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/english/allen/humors.htm
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| | Humor Theory |
| | Most of the time, additions are bad, but sometimes they can provide extra meaning, which may or may not be humorous, and is probably subjectively so at most. | | | But we have things to discuss like the principle of comic timing with respect to the relationship between the humorous element of a joke and its phonetic emphasis. | | | Our deeper laugh is because we feel Allen's latent hostility for his wife, whether we cognitively believe it is real or not. |
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http://www.coldbacon.com/humortheory.html
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| | A Theory of Humor |
| | The theory states that humor is fully characterized by three conditions, each of which, separately, is necessary for humor to occur, and all of which, jointly, are sufficient for humor to occur. | | | A wide variety of biological, social/communicational, and other classes of humor-related phenomena are characterized and explained in terms of the theory. | | | The conditions of this theory describe a subjective state of apparent emotional absurdity, where the perceived situation is seen as normal, and where, simultaneously, some affective commitment of the perceiver to the way something in the situation ought to be is violated. |
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http://www.tomveatch.com/else/humor/paper
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| | Hippocrates [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Such an alternative to the empiricist program aims at establishing a theory of causes that underlie individual cases. | | | When imbalance occurred, then the physician might intervene by making a correction to bring the body back into balance. | | | An Ancient Debate: Are General Causal Theories Beneficial? |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/hippocra.htm
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| | Humor as Therapy: Therapeutic Humor and Philosophical Practice | | | Analysis of Humor by Means of Any Concept | | | Review of Salvatore Attardo, Linguistic Theories of Humor |
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http://facstaff.uww.edu/shiblesw/humorbook
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| | Theorizing Satire - A Bibliography |
| | The Labyrinth of the Comic: Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud. | | | "Bibliography of Theories of Humor." Laughing: A Psychology of Humor. | | | "Humor Appreciation as Social Communication." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 14 (1970): 175-78. |
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http://www.otus.oakland.edu/english/showcase/satbib.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Humor Works: Books: John Morreall |
| | Humor and Laughter : Theory, Research, and Applications by Antony Chapman | | | The book also includes exercises and tips to help you experience the benefits of humor in your work place. | | | This is the theme of Morreall's book; he artfully illustrates with humor theory and practical tools for implemtation. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0874254000?v=glance
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| | humor - Columbia Encyclopedia article about humor |
| | humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. | | | The theory found its strongest advocates among the comedy writers, notably Ben Jonson and his followers, who used humor characters to illustrate various modes of irrational and immoral behavior. | | | Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was achieved through a balance of the four humors; he suggested that the glands had a controlling effect on this balance. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/humor
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| | The present study adopted the same general procedures used by McGhee and Lloyd (1981) and McGhee and Duffey in an attempt to determine whether children show humor preferences along the lines predicted by identification / disposition theory as they begin to establish identity with their own racial-ethnic group. | | | Studies of children’s humor development have focused primarily on cognitive and social aspects of humor. | | | LaFave (1972) has proposed that the extent to which one identified positively or negatively with an individual or group is pivotal in determining the extent of appreciation of humor disparaging that individual or group. |
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http://condor.depaul.edu/~mwilson/extra/humor/childrace.html
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| | Dilbert author reveals his theory of humor |
| | Something is humorous, according to Adams' theory (and he's doing pretty well with it), when it's bizarre, cute, mean, clever, naughty, or recognizable. | | | In the second and third frames, he uses his "theory" on humor, which he talked about later, to embellish some logical progression, and in the fourth, he twists on that progression, making the reader laugh. | | | He humorously talked about little nuances of his second career; he still works his day job, partly because it provides him with material. |
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V113/N55/dilbert.55a.html
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| | SHF: Profiles-Graham |
| | Research Interests: Contemporary Russian literature, culture, and cinema; humor theory; cultural studies; folklore; Central Asian cinema. | | | Seth is currently writing a monograph based on his dissertation, co-editing an anthology of articles about post-censorship Russian satire, and researching Central Asian cinema. | | | Seth Graham received his Ph.D. in Russian Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. |
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| | Women's Humor as a Means of Connection and Resistance |
| | Women's Humor as a Means of Both Connection and Resistance by Linda Naranjo-Huebl. | | | Women's Humor as a Means of Connection and Resistance | | | This document is designed to be viewed with a browser capable of displaying frames. |
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