Inside jokes using humor to reverse-engineer the mind
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press
cop. 2011
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010259239708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- What is humor for?
- The phenomenology of humor
- A brief history of humor theories
- Twenty questions for a cognitive and evolutionary theory of humor
- Emotion and computation
- A mind that can sustain humor
- Humor and mirth
- Higher order humor
- Objections considered
- The penumbra : non-jokes, bad jokes, and near-humor
- But why do we laugh?
- The punch line.
