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To Laugh or Not to Laugh: How people perceive humor differently

To Laugh or Not to Laugh: How people perceive humor differently. Molly Ruddell. We Know What It Looks Like… But What is Humor?. Communication tool with many positive and negative applications. My Sense of Humor. Video. Eddie Izzard “Evil Giraffe”. Behind the Laughter.

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To Laugh or Not to Laugh: How people perceive humor differently

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  1. To Laugh or Not to Laugh:How people perceive humor differently Molly Ruddell

  2. We Know What It Looks Like…But What is Humor? • Communication tool with many positive and negative applications

  3. My Sense of Humor

  4. Video Eddie Izzard “Evil Giraffe”

  5. Behind the Laughter • Humor is not universal • Many factors effect perception

  6. Personality • Extroversion vs. Introversion • Aggressiveness • Self-deprecation

  7. Life experience • Culture • Acquisition of values/political ideology

  8. Subject of the Joke We like to hear about what we know

  9. The Project • Wrote a script for performance • Organized a comedy show with other students from a theater class

  10. The Collaborators • Josh • Meredith • Louis • Nick • Emily

  11. Challenges • Venturing out of my comfort zone • ORGANIZATION • Seeking help from others • Thinking thematically

  12. What I’ve Learned [This class wasn’t totally useless] • It’s not that some people are funny and some are not • Everyone can have a humorous perspective in their own right

  13. Continued • It is a evolving life skill and communication tool!

  14. Works Cited • “Billy Connolly”. Online image. 28 Feb 2009.2YearsinKiwiLandBlog. 19 May 2009. <http://2yearsinkiwiland.blogspot>. • Crowley, Julie. “Hostile Aggressive Parent”. Online image. 13 Jun. 2007. StepparentAdoptionBlog. 19 May 2009. <http://stepparent.adoptionblogs.com>. • “Ear”. Online image. 2008. SivaramaSwami.com. 19 May 2009. <http://sivaramaswami.com>. • Eddie Izzard. “Evil Giraffe”. Online video. Youtube. 19 May 2009. <http://youtube.com>. • “Eddie Izzard”. Online image. 7 Aug. 2008. InstantRiverside.com. 19 May 2009. <http://instantriverside.com>. • “Funny Fruit”. Online image. 1 May 2009. CouchInaPotatoBlog. 19 May 2009.<http://4.bp.blogspot.com/.../s400/noname11.jpg>. • Kuhlman, Thomas L. “A Study of Salience and Motivational Theories of Humor”.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1985: 281-286.EbscoPyschArticles. Springfield Township HS Lib. 26 Feb. 2009.<http://ebscopyscharticles.com>. • “Laugher”. Online image. 13 Oct. 2008. GrannySmithGreen. 19 May 2009. <http://gyork.co.uk/images/laughter.jpg>. • McGhee, Paul E. “A Developmental Test of the Dispositional Theory of Humor”. Child Development. Sep. 1981: 925-931. JSTOR. Springfield Township HS Lib. 3 Mar. 2009. <http://jstor.org>. • Mobbs, Dean. “Personality Predicts Activity in Reward and Emotional Regions Associated with Humor”. The National Academy of Sciences. 8 Nov. 2005:16502-16506. JSTOR. Springfield Township HS Lib. 3 Mar. 2009.<http://jstor.org>. • O’Brien, Mike ed. The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.

  15. Continued • “Planets”. Online image. 11 Dec. 2003. lepmfi. 19 May 2009. <http://lepfmi.gsfc.nasa.gov>. • Provine, Robert R. Laughter: A Scientific Investigation. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam Inc, 2000. • “Ricky Gervais”. Online image. 2007. FilmWad.com. 19 May 2009. <http://filmwad.com>. • Sanford, Stephanie. “Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction”. Social Psychology Association. Sep. 1984: 235-243. JSTOR. American Sociological Association.Springfield Township HS Lib. 3 Mar. 2009. <http://jstor.org>. • Shulman, Polly. “Crack Me Up: Breaking the Humor Code”. Pyschology Today. July/August 2006. 69-77 • Wilson, Glenn D. “Ideology and Humor Preferences”. International Political Science Review. Oct. 1990: 461-472. JSTOR. Sage Publications, Ltd. Springfield Township HS Lib. 3 Mar. 2009. <http://jstor.org>. • “World Flags”. Online image. Magma-amgm. 19 May 2009. <http://magma-amgm.org>. • All Other Pictures Are From ClipArt The End

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