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Slide 1 - Shawn’s Humor Lecture This better be funny.
Slide 2 - Outline I. Explanations of humor II. Mindful Humor III. MIB’s—Mental Interior Benefits IIII. Positive Social benefits (dating, business, politics) IIIII. Pragmatic steps IIIIII. The greatest power of humor
Slide 3 - Why talk about humor? Hard to define– slips through our fingers Dead Frog Problem--Can you study humor? Are some people funny and some aren’t?
Slide 4 - Working Definition Humor is a way of mindfully perceiving the world--analogous to peak experiences and flow– where an individual is aware of potentialities in a situation or environment. Potentials: positive change, things are good now compared to alternatives, or there is an alternative to the status quo.
Slide 5 - The Philosophy of Funny Freud: Humor as “psychological release” “Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious” Social acceptable envelope of id desires Henri Bergson: Humor as a “corrective”
Slide 6 - Dale Sturtevant
Slide 7 - Freud: Humor as “psychological release” “Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious” Social acceptable envelope of id desires Henri Bergson: Humor as a “corrective”
Slide 8 - Social Rule Breaking
Slide 9 - Humor as a mindful lens… How we perceive social rule breaking Humor = shift in evaluative stance Positive spin on life: Alpha vs Beta Press Alpha press- objective constraints of reality Beta press– subjective construal of reality Affected by affect
Slide 10 - Super Scientific Silliness Test
Slide 11 - Humor as a mindful lens… How we perceive social rule breaking Humor = shift in evaluative stance Positive spin on life: Alpha vs Beta Press Alpha press- objective constraints of reality Beta press– subjective construal of reality Affected by affect Humor as mindfulness (Langer)
Slide 12 - Humor as transcendence… Transcending: the world as it should be (Berger) Relationship to Peak Experiences Momentarily take on self-actualization Ordinary becomes extraordinary (Seinfeld) Momentary suspension of reality (Sacks) Rebuttal: Life IS beautiful
Slide 13 - The MIB’s: Mental Interior Benefits Laughing as medicine—Deep Thoughts Activates parasympathetic response Even small dose increases immune system (Kimata—bronchial asthma and humor) Increases pain tolerance (Zweyer) Decreases stress/ increases remission rates (Chapple and Zieland Testicular Cancer)
Slide 14 - Positive Social Effects— (How to trick friends into liking you and then assert power over them)
Slide 15 - Positive Social Effects— (How to trick friends into liking you and then assert power over them) Interpersonal—Bondage in first encounters Dating—Desirability in mates Differences between men and women Negotiations (Forester)
Slide 16 - Humor in society… Fox and American society Politics (Wickberg) Self-deprecating (Katz) Side note– spilling water Less War
Slide 17 - Positive Political Love
Slide 18 - Shawn’s 6 steps to Funny Funny gene? 1. Journal funny stories unique to you 2. Watch funny people—become an observer 3. TQP—Two question process Why am I so funny? And why don’t others recognize this? Builds self-esteem
Slide 19 - Shawn’s six steps to funny (cont) 4. The permission to be subhuman 5. Finding a balance 6. Go 100%
Slide 20 - The Greatest Power of Humor… Humor as therapy (Pennybaker) Cuddle parties, laughing groups in India Transforming horror (The Shining, Dr. Strangelove)
Slide 21 - Shining with Humor Lens
Slide 22 - The greatest power of humor (cont.) Orring and the Challenger Jon Stewart post 9/11 The suffering Onion Beginnings of Transformation (Family Guy)
Slide 23 - Jon Stewart
Slide 24 - Slow Transformation
Slide 25 - Conclusion Humor is a lens like optimism Demands a mindfulness to potentialities Increased health, increased sociability, and decreased stress Humor as therapy and transcendence The power that humor holds…