To guffaw, to chuckle, to giggle鈥攍aughter, regardless of how we do it, is a form of expression everyone experiences. But why do we do it? Today at 1 p.m. on Think, we will speak to about his quest for the answer in "The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny."
McGraw also explores the concept of comedy as a director of (HuRL) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Alongside Caleb Warren, McGraw created the Benign Violation Theory, which states that a situation is funny if it is a harmless violation.
http://youtu.be/-GNy4c1RX5I
Another circulating theory about why we laugh is the Incongruity Theory, which says humor exists when a situation strays from normalcy.
http://youtu.be/ddV6jyDeCKA
How Stuff Work provides further concerning what makes us laugh.
Locale also plays a part in how funny a situation can be, McGraw said. With an algorithm fashioned at the HuRL, McGraw and his colleagues found .
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