"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 ...

Welcome to the snarky world of in-your-face office humor fueled by the stresses of the workplace and spread by the Internet, photocopier and fax. And, like the holiday, this vein of humor is no ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Humor has been a dynamic subject long studied and explored in all branches psychology. For example, developmental psychologists study how humor and laughter develop throughout our lifespan. Humor ...