SYSK TRENDING: What Makes Things Funny
In this episode of Something You Should Know, host Mike Carruthers explores the science of humor with psychology and marketing researcher Dr. Caleb Warren, who explains that humor arises not from surprise, as commonly believed, but from 'benign violations'—situations that seem wrong or
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