Benign Violation Theory Blog Posts
- A case study in becoming funnier
- Talking Humor and Business with Brian Carter
- Another Benign Violation: Drunk History
- Another Benign Violation: Pet Shaming
- Another Benign Violation: Autocorrect Fails
- Another Benign Violation: Scare Pranks
- Another Benign Violation: 2 Girls 1 Cup Reactions
- Another Benign Violation: Darwin Awards
- Another Benign Violation: Roast Me
- The Humor Code’s Slate series
- Using the benign violation theory to make funny videos
- The serious value of humor in business.
- Turn your kid into a comedian for everyone’s sake.
- Why are haunted housed funny?
- A new benign violation: The funny camera angle
- Finding funny in the lab
- Another benign violation: The Success Kid Meme
- Humor and Well-being
- A professor walks into a MOOC…
- A classic benign violation: the confetti bucket
- Two ways to interpret a laugh
- Wanted: GSOH
- Free research idea: Optical illusions and humor
- Guest Post by Nick Justicz: Parenthood and Infantile Humor
- Guest Post by Nick Justicz: Humor and the Pianist
- Trying to understand absurdity
- Most things are not funny
- Benign violation theory inspired benign violations
- Talking to Humor Therapists
- My Mad Men Inspired Humor Experiment
- When is it “too soon” to tell a joke?
- Guest Post by Alonzo Bodden: A comedian reads McGraw and Warren (2010)
- Which is more violent? A) The Super Bowl or B) Super Bowl ads?
- Why aren’t The New Yorker’s cartoons funnier?
- Eight minutes with Louis C.K.
- Guest post by Caleb Warren: Humor Theories – The Big Three
- A brief introduction to the benign violation theory of humor
- Guest post by Caleb Warren: Humor is more (and less) than incongruity
- What is the most universal type of humor?