Humor research (also humor studies) is a multifaceted field which enters the domains of linguistics, history, and literature. Research in humor has been...

the theories. Among current humor researchers, there has yet to be a consensus about which of these three theories of humor is most viable. Some proponents...

English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine...

publications in humor research, with brief annotations. The list includes books and scholarly journals that regularly cover articles in humor research. This list...

Sigmund Freud noticed that humor, like dreams, can be related to unconscious content. In the 1905 book Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (‹See...

Amy (2008). "Historical Views of Humor" (PDF). In Raskin, Victor (ed.). Primer of Humor Research: Humor Research 8. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter...

Humor styles are a subject of research in the field of personality psychology that focuses on the ways in which individuals differ in their use of humor...

Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek...

of the shaggy dog story. In fact, some researchers see the "shaggy dog story" as a type of anti-joke. Anti-humor is described as a form of irony or reversal...

Computational humor is a branch of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence which uses computers in humor research. It is a relatively new...

"Investigating the humor of gelotophobes: Does feeling ridiculous equal being humorless?" (PDF). Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. 22 (1–2): 111–143...

literature and humor researchers now have a single theoretical framework, with which they can analyze and map any kind of verbal humor, including novels...

the regime. Chaya Ostrower [he], a pioneer in Holocaust humor research, maintained that humor was a defense mechanism that helped to endure the atrocities...

contrasted with comedy, as in the seriocomedy. In the theory of humor, one must have a sense of humor and a sense of seriousness to distinguish what is supposed...

of his research. For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes. Purposes of the research included...

include The Falls by Peter Greenaway and Brazil by Terry Gilliam. Surrealist humor has become increasingly popular in both children- and adult-oriented western...

Friends. Carlin was posthumously awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2008. He placed second on Comedy Central's list of top 10 American comedians...

Humor: International Journal of Humor Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Walter de Gruyter on behalf of the International Society...

used to describe the normalization of extremist views through the use of humor, particularly in online spaces. The New York Times used the term to describe...

"Script opposition and logical mechanism in punning". Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. 17 (4): 381–392. doi:10.1515/humr.2004.17.4.381. S2CID 144409644...

Suceava County, Romania Humor: International Journal of Humor Research Wikipedia:Humor, about using humor on Wikipedia Anatomic fluids adjacent to lens of vertebrate...

in-joke can also be used as a subtext, where people in the know may find humor in something not explicitly spoken. They may even apologize for doing so...

Peter C.; Tally, Robert T. Jr. (2012). "Vonnegut's sense of humor". Studies in American Humor. 3 (26): 7–11. doi:10.5325/studamerhumor.26.2012.0007. ISSN 0095-280X...

use of language, the scene is discussed in Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research as an instance where the expected actions of the characters—the Romans...

with his pupil Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island and its sheltered lagoon. While in...

Several types of therapy have emerged which use laughter to help patients. Humor and Laughter Therapy consist of the use of humorous materials such as books...

and his Humor Code co-author Joel Warner worked with Adrian Ward and Caleb Warren, and other members of the Humor Research Lab to create the Humor Algorithm...

ISBN 978-0-87421-128-3. Raskin, Victor, ed. (2008). Primer of Humor Research: Humor Research 8. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Schmidt-Lauber, Brigitta...

2017. Durbin, Karen (September 15, 2002). "A Family's Legacy: Pain and Humor (and a Movie)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April...

Good Humor is a Good Humor-Breyers brand of ice cream started by Harry Burt in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, in the early 1920s with the Good Humor bar...