Describing humor with an equation

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 09:30 in Psychology & Sociology

A new theory of humor addresses questions of human attraction to errors and our susceptibility to ideas we know are bad for us, and summarizes it with an equation. The new theory suggests an equation for identifying the cause and level of our responses to any humorous stimuli: h = m x s.

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