The complexity of jokes is limited by cognitive constraints on mentalizing
Although laughter is probably of deep evolutionary origin, the telling of jokes, being language-based, is likely to be of more recent origin within the human lineage. In language-based communication, speaker and listener are engaged in a process of mutually understanding each other’s intentions (min...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
2015
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