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Publication details [#36771]

Morreall, John. 1989. Enjoying incongruity. Humor 2 (1) : 1–18.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | rationality | thought

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0933-1719

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper argues that the human species is the only one to enjoy incongruity, as our rational thought enabled us to transcend negative emotions and puzzlement as responses to incongruity.