People who make tasteful, witty jokes are seen as confident and competent, but crass joke-telling can backfire. By Alex Fradera
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Comprehension and appreciation of black humour correlated with verbal and non-verbal IQ. By Christian Jarrett
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
This is episode 12 of our podcast PsychCrunch – can findings from psychology help us to be funnier?
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
By Matthew Warren. Viewing and sharing memes with depression-related themes might be a coping strategy.
One of the fictional Twitter accounts used in Pavelko & Myrick (2015). Stigma is a problem for all forms of…
By Emma Young. The main message is that “others like us more than we know”.
The researchers considered 7 possible mechanisms that may be responsible for paternal weight gain. By Christian Jarrett
The researchers asked over 800 participants to rate the funniness of hundreds of individual words, all in the service of science. By Christian Jarrett
