The Importance of Not Being Earnest

The Importance of Not Being Earnest

The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor

by Wallace L. Chafe

167 pages· 2007· ISBN 9789027241528
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This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be counterproductive. Laughter is viewed as an expression of this feeling, and humor as a set of devices designed to trigger it because it is so pleasant and distracting.

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