There’s something satisfying about spotting irony in the wild. Whether it’s a sign that says one thing but shows another or a ...

Whether it's political, economic, or social turmoil, the modern world can be hard to cope with. So, we need every tool that ...

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 ...

Here’s why spicing up your sense of humor with cynicism and chutzpah can make you more desirable. Although there is no single definition of sarcasm, most define it as verbal irony—saying the opposite ...

A rabbi, a priest, an imam, and a porn star walk into a bar … if you think a joke with that intro counts as appropriate workplace humor, you probably haven’t been paying enough attention. So, what ...

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 ...

When you've been single as long as I have, you tend to accumulate a lot of experience on dating apps. And after a thousand or so swipes, you start to notice some common trends in what your fellow ...

“I remember hearing her say stuff and figuring out that she didn't mean what she said,” says Walker, who leads the Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab at UC Santa Cruz. “She used to say ...