Humour is a vital component of human socio-affective and cognitive functioning. Recent advances in neuroscience have enabled researchers to explore this human attribute in children and adults. Humour ...

For those who worry that strong AI will eliminate us in some Judgement-Day-style apocalypse, a small measure of comfort may be derived from the thought that our human sense of humor could live on ...

Humor has a large role to play when it comes to engaging students in a classroom environment. By facilitating student laughter with appropriate jokes, quips, and visual humor, a teacher can make the ...

For those who worry that strong AI will eliminate us in some Judgement-Day-style apocalypse, a small measure of comfort may be derived from the thought that our human sense of humor could live on ...

Preface / Adrian W.B. Randolph -- Introduction: No laughing matter: visual humor in practice and theory / David Bindman -- Carnivalesque and grotesque: what Bakhtin's laughter tells us about art and ...

Drama. Directed by Richard Ayoade. Based on the Dostoyevsky novella. With Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn. (R, 93 minutes.) If you want a reverential movie take on Dostoyevsky's "The ...