What Makes Things Funny? With Peter McGraw, PhD

What Makes Things Funny? With Peter McGraw, PhD

What is it about puns that tickles our funny bone? Or dad jokes? How about a person slipping on a banana peel? What could possibly tie all these very different things together under the heading “humor”? Just in time for April Fool’s Day, we explore that question with Peter McGraw, PhD, a marketing and psychology professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and director of the Humor Research Lab, also known as HuRL. McGraw discusses his “benign violation” theory of humor, when it’s too soon to joke about tragedy, how and why humor varies by culture, and how we can apply lessons from comedy to become more innovative and creative thinkers in all areas of our life and work. Are you enjoying Speaking of Psychology? We’d love to know what you think of the podcast, what you would change about it, and what you’d like to hear more of. Please take our listener survey at www.apa.org/podcastsurvey. Links Peter McGraw, PhD Humor Research Lab Benign Violation Theory TEDxBoulder Video with Peter McGraw, PhD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Encore: Why you should aim to be a “good enough” parent, with Tim Cavell, PhD, and Lauren Quetsch, PhD

Encore: Why you should aim to be a “good enough” parent, with Tim Cavell, PhD, and Lauren Quetsch, PhD

Being a parent can be tough these days. Dozens of books and articles offer competing answers to questions from how to help siblings get along to how much screen time is too much, and every decision yo...

29 Heinä 43min

AI “de-skilling”: What happens when we offload our work to AI? With Brooke Macnamara, PhD

AI “de-skilling”: What happens when we offload our work to AI? With Brooke Macnamara, PhD

From writing emails to analyzing medical images, AI is becoming a routine part of many people's work. These tools can boost productivity and free us from tedious tasks -- but what happens when we star...

22 Heinä 34min

Social media, looksmaxxing, and why men struggle with body image, with Roberto Olivardia, PhD

Social media, looksmaxxing, and why men struggle with body image, with Roberto Olivardia, PhD

For years, body image concerns and eating disorders were viewed as problems that primarily affected girls and women. But boys and men also struggle with body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and bod...

15 Heinä 45min

Rethinking sleep and mental health, with Philip Gehrman, PhD

Rethinking sleep and mental health, with Philip Gehrman, PhD

Too often, we treat sleep as something we can sacrifice when life gets busy. But a growing body of research finds that sleep is essential to both mental and physical health -- and that sleep problems...

8 Heinä 31min

Why listening well is harder -- and more powerful -- than you think, with Guy Itzchakov, PhD

Why listening well is harder -- and more powerful -- than you think, with Guy Itzchakov, PhD

Most people think they’re good listeners. But really listening well is harder than it seems. Guy Itzchakov, PhD, talks about what distinguishes high-quality listening from just staying quiet while som...

1 Heinä 45min

“Sharenting”: What happens when children's lives are shared online? With Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, PhD

“Sharenting”: What happens when children's lives are shared online? With Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, PhD

From ultrasound photos to graduation pictures, many parents share their children's lives online. For some families, these posts help maintain connections with friends and relatives or build supportive...

24 Kesä 24min

Multisensory perception: How sight, sound and touch shape what we taste, with Charles Spence, PhD

Multisensory perception: How sight, sound and touch shape what we taste, with Charles Spence, PhD

Why does seafood taste better at the beach? Why are so many snacks crunchy? Can the color of a room or the music in the background change the way we experience what we eat and drink? Charles Spence, ...

17 Kesä 41min

Why midlife may be your prime time, with Margie Lachman, PhD

Why midlife may be your prime time, with Margie Lachman, PhD

For many adults, midlife is a time of competing responsibilities: raising children, helping parents and managing careers, all while confronting their own aging. Yet psychologists increasingly see thes...

10 Kesä 31min

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