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Taking laughter seriously

John Morreall
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The article was published on 1982-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 475 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Laughter.

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Laughing in Spaces of Sameness: Disrupting the Seriousness of Critical Pedagogy

TL;DR: In this article, Bic Ngo et al. presented a Ph.D. dissertation on education, Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on the education, curriculum and instruction.
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Mental models, (de)compressions, and the actor’s process in body-swap movies

TL;DR: The body-swap comedy, where someone finds themselves inhabiting an entirely different body, is a well-established Hollywood tradition as discussed by the authors, where the actor's process is described by, among others, Stanislavsky and Brecht (1964, 1970).
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Humor patterns: teasing, fun and mirth

TL;DR: In this article, humor patterns in computer games have been developed to create tools that game designers can use for the greater enjoyment of all and, to produce new forms of comic games that delight and surprise us.