Is wit a sign of evolutionary fitness? A new study explores how "quick-wittedness" and ancient verb-noun compounds shaped the evolution of human grammar through sexual selection. Learn how "killjoys" ...

Humor has a large role to play when it comes to engaging students in a classroom environment. By facilitating student laughter with appropriate jokes, quips, and visual humor, a teacher can make the ...

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 ...

“Can you do something?” I asked a conversational AI system. “I’m happy to do what I can, in any way that I can,” replied the machine. Over the whole of human history, many researchers and scientists ...

Don’t you hate it,” says Jon the Robot, gesturing with tiny articulated arms at an expectant crowd, “when you’re trying to solve inverse kinematics equations ...

In the past year, I’ve had the privilege of working with a leading scholar in humor studies. Dr. Jennalee Donian is an NIHSS postdoctoral research fellow at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa ...