Humor research

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Humor research is a multidisciplinary field which enters the domains of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, history and literature. More recently, computational humor, a subdomain of the computer science and artificial intelligence emerged, which uses computers to model humor. ^[1]

1 Topics
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 Organizations associated with humor research

[edit] Topics

Humor research deals with the following major issues: ^[1]

Theories of humor, i.e., attempts to understand why people laugh
Sociological research of cultural context of humorous events, i.e., their influence in social interactions
Laughter research
Humor and health
Historical evolution of humor and its recording
Research of the sense of humor, i.e., research of humor as a personality trait
Linguistic aspects of humor: syntactic, pragmatic and semantic aspects of verbal humor
Computational humor (not to be confused with computer humor)