It's Funny Because It's True


	It's Funny Because It's True

chestnut501

10-17-2009 11:12 AM

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science, psychology, bias, beliefs, laughter

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Research proves that the things we find funny often reveal somewhat hidden beliefs we hold.

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typically an unconscious, automatic response it is a useful measure for laying 
bare individual biases.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=its-funny-because-its-true-09-10-13"><SPAN>Nearly 60 students were tested for their personal gender and racial biases, of which they might be quite unaware. <O:P></O:P></O:P><//O:P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=its-funny-because-its-true-09-10-13"><SPAN>Then they watched comedian Bill Burr do a 30-minute stand up. Lynch 
measured the amount of laughter as well as more subtle—and automatic—facial 
expressions.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=its-funny-because-its-true-09-10-13"><SPAN>Those who found Burr’s racially charged jokes most funny</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=its-funny-because-its-true-09-10-13">also had shown a significant preference for whites. And those who laughed most 
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racist jokes,” but rather the conclusions show that laughter often acts as a 
hard-to-fake signal of the somewhat unconscious beliefs we all hold, whatever 
those beliefs are.</SPAN><SPAN 
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