On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Craig Dolan-Betney wrote:
> Can humour be a symptom of cognitive dissonance?
The amusement reaction seems to be a reaction to certain kinds of
cognitive dissonance. Small children are amused by simple dissonance;
adults grow to appreciate resolvable dissonance (jokes that make sense
when you think about them another way, or make the necessary leap). Not
that adults can't also appreciate simple nonsense.
--Eva,
>
> --Craig
> (this list is giving me more memes than I realised :-)
who wrote a paper on humor in college once. It wasn't funny at all.