Ha! (37 page)

     
University of Toronto,
50

     
University of Washington,
112

     
University of Wuerzburg, Germany,
29

     
West Carolina University,
98

     
Westfield State College Massachusetts,
172

Comedic timing,
154–158

Communication.
See
Social interaction and humor

Computers

     
Automatic Mathematician,
126–127

     
brain comparisons with (
see
Brain Regions
)

     
consciousness and,
127–128
,
130

     
creativity and,
108–109
,
119
,
121–124

     
Deep Blue,
108–109
,
117

     
DEviaNT,
112–113

     
evolutionary algorithms,
126

     
Gaiku,
122–123
,
124
,
127

     
Hahacronym,
111

     
Joking Computer, the,
110
,
111
,
119

     
Joke Analysis Production Machine (JAPE),
111

     
Watson,
106–108
,
109
,
111
,
114
,
117
,
126
,
130

Constructing (first stage of humor processing),
31–36
,
40
,
48
,
116

Cook, Dane,
187

Cooperative principle,
158–159

Cosby, Bill,
134
,
140
,
142
,
144
,
196

Coulson, Seana,
116

Cousins, Norman,
133
,
134–136
,
137
,
140
,
144
,
148–149

Creativity

     
combinatorial,
110–111
,
119

     
exploratory,
119–120

     
subjective assessment of,
119
,
123–124
,
125
,
126

     
transformational,
120–124
,
127

Csikszentmihali, Mihaly,
196

D

Dangerfield, Rodney,
146

Dark humor.
See
Humor types

Davies, Catherine Evans,
183

Davies, Christie,
57
,
59
,
64
,
74

Derks, Peter,
45–47
,
85

Developmental changes and humor,
100–103

Dijkstra, Edsger,
105

Dr. Strangelove
(movie),
9

Dundes, Alan,
74

Dyak Tribes of Borneo,
76–77

E

Education and humor

     
classroom improvements,
179–181

     
training (i.e., learning to be funny),
187–192

Emotion.
See
Affect

Evolution

     
computer algorithms (
see
Computers: evolutionary algorithms
)

     
gender differences and,
171–173

     
general,
19–20
,
32
,
48
,
50
,
149
,
184
,
197

     
specialists and generalists,
84–85
,
100

Exercise metaphor of humor,
91
,
136–137
,
145–146
,
147
,
148–149
,
150
,
173
,
180–181
,
183
,
186–187

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire,
87–88
,
90

F

Faces of Death
(movie),
147–149

Feynman, Richard,
27
,
29

Firth, Collin,
48–49

Fisher, Rhoda and Seymour,
188–189

Flow,
196

Ford, Thomas,
98–99

Forrester, Brent,
25

Friedman, Howard,
141–142

Friends
(television show),
146

Freud, Sigmund,
15
,
16
,
23
,
61
,
92
,
180

G

Gallows humor.
See
Humor types

Gardner, Howard,
166–168

Gender

     
humor differences and,
24
,
92–99

     
partner seeking and humor,
171–173

General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH),
43
,
155

Genetic influences on humor,
188

Gleason, Jackie,
188

Gopnik, Alison,
29

Gottfried, Gilbert,
5–6
,
8
,
11–12
,
13
,
20
,
52
,
54

Grice, Paul,
158–159
,
160

Grice's Maxims.
See
Cooperative Principle

H

Haggard, Bill,
179–180

Hefner, Hugh,
5
,
6
,
52

Heinlein, Robert,
100
,
101

Herwald, Kurt,
176–178

Herzog, Thomas,
59

Hobbes, Thomas,
55

Hoffding, Harald,
63

Hope, Bob,
188

Hotel de Matignon,
38–39
,
40

House of God
(book),
66

Humor and Duration Principle,
25

Humor Styles Questionnaire,
146–147

Humorous Behavior Q-Sort Deck,
21

Humor, stages of.
See
Constructing
,
Reckoning
, or
Resolving

Humor styles (positive and negative),
146–147

Humor, types of

     
absurd / nonsense,
21
,
23–24
,
45
,
91
,
102–103
,
163

     
dark,
6
,
8
,
11–12
,
13
,
16
,
55–61
,
64–67
,
77
,
125
,
147
,
153

     
general,
16
,
146–147

     
incongruity,
21
,
35–36
,
44–45
,
47
,
57
,
59
,
85–86
,
102–103
,
115
,
118
,
189

     
insult,
23
,
57
,
70–77
,
152–154
,
183

     
irony / sarcasm,
9
,
16
,
101
,
106
,
146
,
159–160
,
168–169

     
Jewish,
183

     
lesbian,
183

     
political (
see
Politics and humor
)

     
redneck,
183

     
sexist,
97–99

     
sexual,
21
,
97
,
112

     
slapstick,
16
,
146

I

Incongruity.
See
Humor types

Insight,
27–34
,
36
,
54
,
170
,
184–186

International humor tastes,
21–22
,
23–24
,
73–74

Isen, Alice,
186

J

Jab lines,
157–158

James, William,
154

Jennings, Ken,
105–108
,
130

Jeopardy!
(television show),
105–107
,
109
,
111
,
114

Jokes

     
aristocrats, the,
6
,
8
,
11–12
,
54

     
blonde,
98

     
chicken crossing the road,
55
,
125–126

     
elephant,
45
,
55
,
74
,
102
,
103
,
110–11

     
lawyer,
75–76
,
99

     
light bulb,
110–111
,
159
,
183

     
obscene (
see
Humor types
)

Joy.
See
Affect

K

Kagera laughter outbreak.
See
Laughter: Kagera epidemic

Kasparov, Gary,
108–109

Kaufman, Andy,
120–121

Keaton, Buster,
188

Kelleher, Herb,
176–178

Kiddon, Chloe,
112

Kimmel, Jimmy,
5

Knoxville, Johnny,
16

Kozbelt, Aaron,
189

Kuiper, Nicholas,
92

L

Last Comic Standing
(television show),
94
,
152

LaughLab Humor Project,
22–26
,
97
,
110
,
126
,
195

Laughter

     
apes and,
12
,
100–101

     
blood flow and,
137–139
,
140

     
dogs and,
12

     
facial musculature of,
29–30
,
46–47

     
frequency of,
xiii
,
93–94
,
172

     
immune system function and,
139–140
,
149
,
150

     
Kagera epidemic,
3–5
,
8
,
9–11
,
20

     
pain and (
see
Pain
)

     
pathological,
82–84

     
penguins and,
12

     
rats and,
12
,
20

     
shared,
162–164

     
Washoe the chimpanzee,
12–13

     
weight judgments and,
35–36

Law of three,
158

Leclair, Jean Marie,
38
,
40

Lefcourt, Herbert,
58
,
92

Lakoff, Robin,
92–93
,
97

Leno, Jay,
48
,
94

Lexical decision,
117–118
,
165

Longevity and humor,
140–142
,
147

M

Magooby's Joke House,
152
,
193