While traveling the world exploring the science of what makes things funny, we stumbled on an important question: What makes a good comedy club? According to many of the comics we interviewed, a ...

Key points. Laughter and humor are inexorably tied to vulnerability, but when explaining them, it is easier to employ a term we use as its measure: status.

The Humor Code has competition in the form of books like Scott Weems’ Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why , which was published on March 4th. But as similarly good-natured as it is, Ha!

Analyzing humor, observed American author E.B. White, is like dissecting a frog. "Few people are interested, and the frog dies of it.” But that has not deterred Peter McGraw. McGraw teaches ...

Activist-artist Tanzila Ahmed's snarky cards challenge stereotypes about Muslim-Americans. "With humor, you're able to sneak into people's consciousness and get them to think differently," she says.

Peter McGraw, left, and Joel Warner's new book, "The Humor Code," chronicled their exhaustive search for the sources of levity. Of all the things Joel Warner and Peter McGraw did for their book ...

Humor is an under-appreciated tool for engaging employees and building resilient cultures. ... Even laughter–if it’s loud, variable in tone, and higher in pitch–suggests higher status.

While traveling the world exploring the science of what makes things funny, we stumbled on an important question: What makes a good comedy club? According to many of the comics we interviewed, a ...

Key points. Laughter and humor are inexorably tied to vulnerability, but when explaining them, it is easier to employ a term we use as its measure: status.