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Humor is such an integral part of the human psyche that philosophers and other intellectuals have long been fascinated with its origins in and its effects on the human brain. Several early theorists The Greek word chumoi means "juices," and the ancient Greeks used the word, ... but a broken spirit drieth the bones" (17:22).
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The incongruity theory: This suggests that humour arises when the seemly and logical disappear and things that do not normally go well together appear. The child who places a toy cat in the cat basket and heads off to the vet can bring about intense laughter.
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library.thinkquest.org/25500/humor/incongruity.htm
library.thinkquest.org/25500/humor/incongruity.htm
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The Incongruity Theory Revisited; One of the theories about the causes of laughter we discussed earlier was the incongruity theory. Let's now look at how this might be applied to a joke. ... Two parts to the funny equation: Incongruity Theory and Detachment...
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Theories of humor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theories of humor are attempts to explain what causes people to perceive humor in things, events or texts. A closely related topic is the theories of laughter. The superiority theory of humor trace...
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Scientists refer to this as the ‘incongruity-resolution’ theory. We resolve the incongruity caused by the punch line, and the accompanying feeling of sudden surprise makes us laugh. The following LaughLab jokes illustrate different kinds of incongruity: Did you hear about the man who drowned in a bowl of muesli?
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www.richardwiseman.com/LaughLab/incon.html
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Starting from a widely advocated idea, the incongruity-resolution; theory of humour, we develop some sketches of what pro-cessing steps might be needed in interpreting certain classes of joke, and we indicate some research subproblems.
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www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~gritchie/papers/aisb99.pdf
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CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles): The idea of incongruity-resolution has frequently been suggested as an account of many types of joke. However, there is no precise statement either of this "theory" nor of its main concepts (incongruity and resolution), and different authors may disagree on details.
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The drag queen is concerned with masculine-feminine transformation, while the camp is concerned with what might be called a philosophy of transformations and incongruity. Certainly the two roles are intimately related, since to be a feminine man is by definition incongruous.
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