The Benign Vio­la­tion The­o­ry The Humor Research Lab uses the Benign Vio­la­tion The­o­ry as its the­o­ret­i­cal foun­da­tion. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with Caleb War­ren, McGraw has been devel­op­ing and test­ing a gen­er­al the­o­ry of humor called the benign vio­la­tion the­o­ry. The the­o­ry builds on work by a lin­guist, Tom Veatch, and inte­grates exist­ing humor the­o­ries to pro­pose … Con­tin­ue read­ing Benign Vio­la­tion Theory