Inside Jokes

Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind

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Publisher's Synopsis

Describing humour as 'endogenous mind candy', the authors set out to show that humour is as old as the human brain itself. Able to indulge in open-ended thinking & faced with time-pressured mis-leaps & near-misses, the brain is bribed with pleasure to encourage us to recognise absurdity.

Book information

ISBN: 9780262015820
Publisher: MIT Press
Imprint: The MIT Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 152.43
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 359
Weight: 658g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm