I recently had the privilege of presenting a paper at the 2024 conference of the International Society of Humor Studies. It was during that meeting that I had the idea of interviewing leading experts ...

There has been a recent surge of interest in the role of humor in American political discourse. Every faction uses humor to ...

Research shows workplace humor is a double-edged sword—great jokes can boost status, but failed attempts often backfire. Here’s how to “think funny” without risking your career.

But new research shows that humor at work is a gamble, and the costs of a flop are often greater than the rewards of a laugh.A team of professors studying workplace humor say their findings challenge ...

This book grew on me. I started out with the observation that classical humor theory, in which I have played a small but not insignificant role, was still relevant in analyzing the new humor on the ...