{"id":125,"date":"2021-08-23T17:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T23:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doubletopsecretwebsite.com\/hurl\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2021-08-25T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T21:42:11","slug":"benign-violation-theory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/humorresearchlab.com\/benign-violation-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Benign Violation Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Benign Violation Theory<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Humor Research Lab uses the Benign Vio\u00adla\u00adtion The\u00ado\u00adry as its the\u00ado\u00adret\u00adi\u00adcal foundation.<\/p>

In col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion with Caleb War\u00adren, McGraw has been devel\u00adop\u00ading and test\u00ading a gen\u00ader\u00adal the\u00ado\u00adry of humor called the benign vio\u00adla\u00adtion the\u00ado\u00adry. The the\u00ado\u00adry builds on work by a lin\u00adguist, Tom Veatch, and inte\u00adgrates exist\u00ading humor the\u00ado\u00adries to pro\u00adpose that humor occurs when and only when three con\u00addi\u00adtions are sat\u00adis\u00adfied: (1) a sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is a vio\u00adla\u00adtion, (2) the sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is benign, and (3) both per\u00adcep\u00adtions occur simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly. For exam\u00adple, play fight\u00ading and tick\u00adling, which pro\u00adduce laugh\u00adter in humans (and oth\u00ader pri\u00admates), are benign vio\u00adla\u00adtions because they are phys\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly threat\u00aden\u00ading but harm\u00adless attacks.<\/p>

A strength of the the\u00ado\u00adry is that it also explains when things are not fun\u00adny: a sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion can fail to be fun\u00adny because it depicts a vio\u00adla\u00adtion that does not simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly seem benign, or because it depicts a benign sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion that has no vio\u00adla\u00adtion. For exam\u00adple, play fight\u00ading and tick\u00adling cease to elic\u00adit laugh\u00adter either when the attack stops (strict\u00adly benign) or becomes too aggres\u00adsive (malign vio\u00adla\u00adtion). Jokes sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly fail to be fun\u00adny when either they are too tame or too risqu\u00e9.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Accord\u00ading to the the\u00ado\u00adry, a vio\u00adla\u00adtion refers to any\u00adthing that threat\u00adens one\u2019s beliefs about how the world should be. That is, some\u00adthing seems threat\u00aden\u00ading, unset\u00adtling, or wrong. From an evo\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary per\u00adspec\u00adtive, humor\u00adous vio\u00adla\u00adtions like\u00adly orig\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded as threats to phys\u00adi\u00adcal well-being (e.g., the attacks that make up tick\u00adling, play fight\u00ading), but expand\u00aded to include threats to psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal well-being (e.g., insults, sar\u00adcasm), includ\u00ading behav\u00adiors that break social norms (e.g., strange behav\u00adiors, flat\u00adu\u00adlence), cul\u00adtur\u00adal norms (e.g., unusu\u00adal accents, most scenes from the movie Borat), lin\u00adguis\u00adtic norms (e.g., puns, mala\u00adpropisms), log\u00adic norms (e.g., absur\u00addi\u00adties, non-sequiturs), and moral norms (e.g., dis\u00adre\u00adspect\u00adful behav\u00adior, bestiality).<\/p>

How\u00adev\u00ader, most things that are vio\u00adla\u00adtions do not make peo\u00adple laugh. For a vio\u00adla\u00adtion to pro\u00adduce humor it also needs to be per\u00adceived as benign. That is, it needs to seem okay, safe, or accept\u00adable. Research in HuRL has high\u00adlight\u00aded three ways that a vio\u00adla\u00adtion can seem benign: 1) Alter\u00adna\u00adtive norms (e.g., one mean\u00ading of a phrase in a pun doesn\u2019t make sense, but the oth\u00ader mean\u00ading does), 2) com\u00admit\u00adment to a vio\u00adlat\u00aded norm (e.g., men find sex\u00adist jokes fun\u00adnier than women do), and 3) psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal dis\u00adtance (e.g., \u201ccom\u00ade\u00addy is tragedy plus time\u201d).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Want to know more about the theory?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDown\u00adload the first chap\u00adter<\/a> of The Humor Code: The Glob\u00adal Search for What Makes Things Funny<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Read these blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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See these sto\u00adries<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Academic Papers<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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