The incongruity theory of humor suggests that we find fundamentally incompatible concepts or unexpected resolutions funny. Basically, we find humor in the incongruity between our expectations and ...

A third long-standing explanation of humor is the theory of incongruity. People laugh at the juxtaposition of incompatible concepts and at defiance of their expectations—that is, at the ...

Joke 2: Two goldfish are in a tank. One turns to the other and asks, So do you know how to drive this thing? The incongruity theory of humor suggests that humor results from incongruous situations ...

At its core, humor involves the ability to detect and to create incongruities. Among our ancient ancestors, the incongruity might have been between behavior that looked like fighting, but which ...

In the case both of wit and humor there is also a pleasurable surprise, a gentle shock, which accompanies our perception of the hitherto unsuspected resemblance or incongruity. A New England ...

I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I really believe in the incongruity theory. Getting back to the Benign Violations Theory, it says that humor comes from a few necessary conditions ...

Superiority, relief, and incongruity theories of humor are unified under the benign violations theory (BVT). BVT theorizes that a joke is funny when it meets three necessary conditions ...

They've presented numerous theories over the years, one of the most popular being the "incongruity theory" of humor. At its basic level, this theory says that humor arises when there's an ...

The hunters joke contains all three elements — we feel superior to the stupid hunter, realize the incongruity of him misunderstanding the operator and the joke helps us to laugh about our ...

But since the damn thing went viral and there is as yet no vaccine to halt its spread, I figured it might provide material for, as they say, a teachable moment on the Incongruity Theory of Humor ...

This Paul McCartney guy gonna be huge. Incongruity Theory on Twitter encourages misunderstandings because the jokes are so often framed like basic observational tweets. Twitter was originally ...

I’ve been studying humor as an academic for a couple of decades now. I’ve written a doctoral dissertation about it, published articles about it, given talks about it, and am an avid consumer ...