Emotional and persuasive perception of fonts. “The aim of this study was to explore the latent affective and persuasive meaning attributed to text when appearing in two commonly used fonts. Two satirical readings were selected from the New York Times. These readings (one addressing government issues, the other education policy) were each printed in [...]

Humor-of-the-Mind Analysis:  Theory and Application . Robin Jaeckle Grawe . Institute for Travesty, Comedy, and Humor Studies When George Meredith wrote his essay unfortunately entitled “An Essay on Comedy”  (he was talking about humor rather than a dramatic form (Comedy. Ed. Wylie Syhpher. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956: 1-60)), he probably did not expect his [...]

Fall 2009 Newsletter of the International Society for Humor Studies

Early publications Sigmund Freud: his 1905 book on jokes and unconscious has been translated in many languages, including several translations in English “Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious“, Translated by James Strachey, 1963, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0393001458 “The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious”, Translated by Joyce Crick 2002, Penguin, [...]

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