In another study conducted at MIT, two groups of participants (professional designers and improv comedians) were asked to brainstorm ideas. Improv artists generated 20% more ideas than the designers ...

Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines sarcasm as “a taunting, sneering, cutting or caustic remark,” while the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary — which calls itself the “one of the world’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with depressive symptoms used more humor and sarcasm to cope with challenges brought on by the COVID-19 ...

In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, printer and inventor, realized at a young age that a virtuous life led to powerful goodwill to the general populace. His pragmatic approach to life caused Franklin ...

Some leaders use humor instinctively; many more could wield it purposefully. by Brad Bitterly and Alison Wood Brooks A few years ago, we conducted a research study in which we asked people to help us ...

Writing of her future demise, author and humorist Dorothy Parker once observed that her epitaph might read, “Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.” Celebrated for her ...

Sarcasm doesn’t always translate in the digital world, and Safiyyah Nawaz is living, tweeting proof. She decided to start the New Year with a joke. She wrote: this ...

(CNN) – Just as Mitt Romney’s campaign ramped up outreach to Latino voters at the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, his “off the cuff comments” that it “would be helpful to be Latino” to win the ...