This paper analyses whether the comprehension of a joke in Italian as foreign language is influenced by personal or task elements, influences perception funniness, and perceived funniness affects intention to share jokes. A quantitative cross-sectional study was performed. Participants were all native Spanish speakers from Mexico who also read language. There 61 participants, aged 19-64 years (...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether emotional functioning can be observed in patients who are behaviourally non-responsive using peripheral markers of emotional functioning. METHOD We tested two patients, both diagnosed as being in a vegetative state (VS) following hypoxia secondary to cardiac arrest. Thirty-seven healthy participants with no history of neurological illness served as a control group...

The Lakota (Sioux) sacred clowns (heyoka) of traditional religious practice offer a glimpse of the clown phenomenon found in many of the world's indigenous traditions. By illustrating the unified Lakota and Western conceptions of humor, the logic of how particular entities of the natural environment are understood as relatives according to Lakota thought is brought to light in hopes of introduc...

In this paper, I argue that humour is an underutilized tool in countering social injustice. Within feminist epistemology much has been made about implicit bias stemming from knowledge gaps. Yet studies have shown awareness of our does little to change behaviour. Instead, overcoming might require a less purely intellectual, more creative approach. Wittgenstein speculated one could write book phi...