to laugh or not to laugh: how people perceive humor differently molly ruddell
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To Laugh or Not to Laugh:
How people perceive humor differently
Molly Ruddell
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We Know What It Looks Like…But What is Humor?
Communication tool with many positive and negative applications
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My Sense of Humor
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Video
Eddie Izzard “Evil Giraffe”
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Behind the Laughter
Humor is not universal Many factors effect
perception
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Personality
Extroversion vs. Introversion
Aggressiveness Self-deprecation
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Life experience
Culture
Acquisition of values/political ideology
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Subject of the Joke
We like to hear about
what we know
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The Project Wrote a script for performance Organized a comedy show with other
students from a theater class
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The Collaborators Josh Meredith Louis Nick Emily
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Challenges Venturing out of my comfort zone ORGANIZATION Seeking help from others Thinking thematically
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What I’ve Learned [This class wasn’t totally useless]
It’s not that some people are funny and some are not Everyone can have a humorous perspective in
their own right
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Continued It is a evolving life skill and communication
tool!
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Works Cited
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All Other Pictures Are From ClipArt
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