How a Joke Make us Laugh
Study a Person character Using his/her jokes.
The
psychology of jokes
Have you ever thought why you laugh when some one tell you a
joke and what make us laugh is it our neurons present in our brain or something
else. Each single action that a person takes even if it was as simple as
telling a joke reflects his unconscious desires and psychological makeup.
Contrary to common beliefs jokes are not only told to make
people laugh but they are told to help people satisfy some of their important
psychological needs.
Early memories (the childhood memories a person can recall)
reflects his psychological goals to a great extent and jokes are no different!
You can know a lot about the psychology of a person by just
knowing about the types of jokes he prefers or by listening to some of his
jokes.
Basically Brain
triggers makes us Laugh
So if we want to understand laughter, perhaps we need to go
deeper, and look at what is going on in the brain. The areas that control
laughing lie deep in the subcortex, and in terms of evolutionary development
these parts of the brain are ancient, responsible for primal behaviours such as
breathing and controlling basic reflexes. This means laughter control
mechanisms are located a long way away from brain regions that developed later
and control higher functions such as language or even memory.
Perhaps this explains why it is so hard to suppress a laugh,
even if we know it is inappropriate. Once a laugh is kindled deep within our
brains these ‘higher function’ brain regions have trouble intervening. And the
reverse is true, of course, it is difficult to laugh on demand. If you
consciously make yourself laugh it will not sound like the real thing – at
least initially.
There is another fundamental aspect to laughing. All humans
laugh, and laughter always involves a similar pattern of whooping noises. Deaf
people who have never heard a sound still make laughing noises . The laughing
noises produced by humans share many of the acoustic properties of speech,
further evidence laughter is hijacking the brain and body apparatus that we use
for breathing and talking.
But this does not fully answer the original question. Even if
we identified the precise brain areas associated with laughing, even if we were
able to make someone laugh by stimulating part of their brain, we still don’t
know what makes people laugh. Yes, we know about the effect, but what about the
cause, that is, the reason why we laugh in the first place?
In this post i will tell you about the psychology of jokes.
Jokes and
the person's psychological goals
During the Egyptian revolution that happened in 2011 a famous
actor mispronounced few words in a TV interview. Few days later the video went
viral and everyone was sharing it and laughing at it.
Now the important question is, why did that specific video
become popular while many others that were funnier didn't become popular? Its
because the lady was against the revolution (at least her way of talking made
it seem so) and as a result the psychological need for revenge was developed
among youth. When the lady made that mistake in the show the desire to take
revenge fueled the efforts of the youth and the video became famous.
A friend of mine always sends dirty jokes and never ever
sends normal ones. I always wondered why this guy never sends normal jokes and
later on i discovered that he has doubts about his masculinity because of
thinking that he is too short to be a real man.
Your height should not have any effect on your self esteem
and that self confidence has no connection to physical looks but for that
specific friend his height made him believe that he is incomplete and as a
result he started to compensate for this psychological need by telling dirty
jokes in an attempt to appear more masculine!
Jokes and
superiority
Many people tell jokes to feel superior to others. For
example a normal looking girl could send a joke about blonds in order to feel
good about herself. By devaluing a blond or saying that blonds are dumb those
girl who have average looks feel good about themselves.
In other words they are trying to say that they are smart or
at least smarter than the dumb blonds. This is a possible explanation for the
popularity of jokes that talk about blonds.
Finally the people of a certain nation can send jokes about
the people of another nation in order to feel good about themselves. When the
first group puts the second group down by making fun of them through a joke
they feel more worthy.
So just as you saw jokes carry hidden meanings and most
people won't be consciously aware of those meanings until someone draws their
attention to them.
The next time someone tells a joke keep an open eye for you
can know a lot about him using this joke.
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