"Boomer Humor" is a subset of humor that has become prevalent on social media, especially Facebook, in the past decade. Disobeyart / Getty Images It often involves minions, blurry pictures of old ...

Melody McLaren, whose giant greeting card I described a few days ago, told me another example of using humor to change behavior: I was working at LA Incentives, a small promotional merchandise ...

Many examples of humor contain elements from two, three, or sometimes all four of these realms. The practical joke involving the spider, for example, has social, emotional, and physical elements ...

Your mind would have no reference point on which to lock onto as a means of digesting the humor. Example: Three hang-gliders are lined up on a runway. This joke starts off in neutral territory.

For example, my own line of research deals with humor in interracial interactions and how it can be used to facilitate these commonly tense situations.

'Peacock' is a Glasgow Film Festival movie by Bernard Wenger from Austria, a social media age metaphor on self-presentation with subtle humor.

When leaders inject appropriate levity into serious settings, it can break down barriers, spark creativity and create a psychologically safe space.

Ostrower then devotes a chapter to Jewish humor and the way in which Jews have shaped their own tradition of humor. Example: Four Jews walked into a restaurant in Leipzig and sat down at a table.

"Boomer Humor" is a subset of humor that has become prevalent on social media, especially Facebook, in the past decade. Disobeyart / Getty Images It often involves minions, blurry pictures of old ...