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The Game of Humor : A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh by Charles Gruner, Charles R. Gruner is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Game of Humor : A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh about?
Humor, wit, and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature, newspapers, and television we experience humor in many forms, yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune, stupidity, and moral or cultural defects, however faintly revealed in others and ourselves, seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting, such negative terms as superiority, aggression, hostility, ridicule, or degradation can be applied to instances of
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Charles Gruner, Charles R. Gruner
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781138535855
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Literary Fiction, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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