Humor research

Humor research

Humor research is a multidisciplinary field which enters the domains of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, history and literature. More recently, computational humor, a subdomain of the computer science and artificial intelligence emerged, which uses computers to model humor. M.P. Mulder, A. Nijholt (2002) [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/580062.html "Humour Research: State of the Art"] ]

Topics

Humor research deals with the following major issues:
*Theories of humor, i.e., attempts to understand why people laugh
*Sociological research of cultural context of humorous events, i.e., their influence in social interactions
*Laughter research
*Gelotology: physiological effects of humor and laughter; health effects in particular
*Historical evolution of humor and its recording
*Research of the sense of humor, i.e., research of humor as a personality trait
*Linguistic aspects of humor: syntactic, pragmatic and semantic aspects of verbal humor
*Computational humor (not to be confused with computer humor)

ee also

*List of publications in humor research

References

External links

Organizations associated with humor research

* [http://www.hnu.edu/ishs/ The International Society for Humor Studies]
* [http://humormatters.com/ Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor]


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