Artificial Humor and Uncertainty
- 1 June 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 42 (3_suppl) , 1051-1056
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1976.42.3c.1051
Abstract
It was suggested that incongruity varies curvilinearly with uncertainty and humor varies directly with incongruity. Therefore, it was predicted that by varying the uncertainty of strings of words in one study and the grammaticality of sentences in another study, a curvilinear relationship between uncertainty-grammaticality and judged humor would occur. The results of the two studies confirmed the prediction.Keywords
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