A ‘‘sense of humor’’ can be fractionated into appreciation (enjoying jokes), production fluency (making jokes), and production success (making funny jokes). There is scant research on how appreciation and production relate, and their relation to individual differences. Participants (N = 159) rated the humor of captioned cartoons and created captions for different cartoons. People who wrote funn...

(i) Showing New Viewpoints (A) Facilitation, (B) Greetings, (C) Raising a problem, (D) Showing new information or viewpoints (ii) Responding Previous Utterances (E) Opinions, (F) Supplementary explanations, (G) Repeating previous utterances, (H) Giving responses (iii) Comedy Performances (I) Boke (Silly jokes), (J) Ijiri (Making fun of the others), (K) Waru-Nori (Repeating silly jokes), (L) Tsu...

The appreciation of humor is a universal phenomenon and a key aspect of cognition. It has been studied in the context of jokes, where the incongruity in expected and observed context results in the perception of humor. The present study examines how the humor appreciation of single words relates to the humor of the whole joke – is a joke simply a sum of its parts? Using a novel dataset of singl...

We investigate literary theories of humour from a computational point of view. A corpus of approximately 11,000 jokes is used to train a neural network generating jokes; the state space of such network is then analyzed via appropriate discovery algorithms, and abstractions synthesized by the neural network are compared to those predicted by existing theories. 1998 ACM Subject Classification F.2...

Humor operates through a variety of techniques, which first generate surprise and then amusement and laughter once the unexpected incongruity is resolved. As different types of jokes use different techniques, the corresponding humor processes also differ. The present study builds on the framework of the 'tri-component theory of humor,' which details the mechanisms involved in cognition (compreh...

In this paper we summarize the proceedings of the Workshop on Humor and Cognition held at Indiana University's Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition on February 18 and 19, 1989. The principal type of humor considered, slippage humor, is first defined and contrasted with aggression-based humor. Next, a particularly clear variety of slippage humor, based on Douglas Hofstadter's notion of ...