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Inside Jokes : Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (374 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262303552
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inside JokesDDC classification:
  • 152.4/3
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Is Humor For? -- 3 The Phenomenology of Humor -- 4 A Brief History of Humor Theories -- 5 Twenty Questions for a Cognitive and Evolutionary Theory of Humor -- 6 Emotion and Computation -- 7 A Mind That Can Sustain Humor -- 8 Humor and Mirth -- 9 Higher-Order Humor -- 10 Objections Considered -- 11 The Penumbra -- 12 But Why Do We Laugh? -- 13 The Punch Line -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
Summary: An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Is Humor For? -- 3 The Phenomenology of Humor -- 4 A Brief History of Humor Theories -- 5 Twenty Questions for a Cognitive and Evolutionary Theory of Humor -- 6 Emotion and Computation -- 7 A Mind That Can Sustain Humor -- 8 Humor and Mirth -- 9 Higher-Order Humor -- 10 Objections Considered -- 11 The Penumbra -- 12 But Why Do We Laugh? -- 13 The Punch Line -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.

An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor.

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