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anonymous 5 years ago

Psychologists A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren proposed a theory about the role played by “benign violations” in humor. In a nutshell, they believe that something is funny when it violates our expectations about how things ought to be—for example, when punch lines in jokes and pratfalls by competent, dignified people surprise us with events that we did not see coming. The violation of social norms and taboos are also out of the ordinary, and hence amusing to us, as long as they don't cross a line and become morally offensive or threatening to us in some way.

(Psychology Article Online)

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Your face is being erased 5 years ago

"they believe that something is funny when it violates our expectations about how things ought to be"

Damn, there must be a lot of 'violating' going on, as this part is the closest thing possible going on here, but I sincerely doubt it.

The more plausable explaination is that this is just more of the fakery and bullshit of our modern society, mixed in with pop 'psychology'.

Maybe some qwack who got his degree from the Hollywood Upstairs Medical College spouted some moronic shit like "laughing frequently while you talk is good for you" on one of those daytime babble TV shows aimed at gold-digging 'housewives', in order to get them to buy his books, and now the idea spread throughout American society (through Facebook, etc). I dunno.

Too bad the laughs I always hear sound fake and forced. A real laugh (the type you hear when something is actually funny) sounds much different.

Well whatever the case may be, I hope this stupid trend/fad dies out soon. I wish the same on the fad of carrying phones around blasting mu-crap through it's tinny speaker like it's a boombox.

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anonymous 5 years ago

I hear this all the time too and it's creepy. Like they are about to snap and do some horror movie shit!

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anonymous 5 years ago