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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Molly Webster. Got a minute?
Everyone from Freud to Tina Fey has tried to understand why some things are funny. Now, new research concludes that one key to comedy is for a situation to violate a moral standard, but in a gentle way.
Researchers presented volunteers with a number of different scenarios2. For example, the Jimmy Dean sausage company needs a spokesman for its new line of pork products, so they hire Rabbi Shlomo Rosenfield. Or, so they hire a farmer. Participants were more likely to find the rabbi scenario1 wrong, but they were also more likely to think it was funny.
The researchers found that participants would laugh at situations with moral violations4 if, for example, they felt that situation was hypothetical, harmless or involved people unconnected to the listener. The study appears in the journal Psychological Science.
The finding deviates5 from previously6 published psychology7 studies which equate8 moral violation3 solely9 with disgust. It also proves that Mel Brooks10 was onto something when he said, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open sewer11 and die."
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Molly Webster.
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n.剧本,脚本;概要 | |
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n.[意]情节;剧本;事态;脚本 | |
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n.违反(行为),违背(行为),侵犯 | |
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违反( violation的名词复数 ); 冒犯; 违反(行为、事例); 强奸 | |
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v.偏离,越轨( deviate的第三人称单数 ) | |
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n.心理,心理学,心理状态 | |
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n.小溪( brook的名词复数 ) | |
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