A brief introduction to the benign violation theory of humor – guest post by Dr Peter McGraw
In this short post, Dr Peter McGraw introduces his universal theory of humor called the benign violation theory. The theory draws to a certain degree on the notion of incongruity, present in other cognitive theories of humor appreciation. The post was originally published on the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) blog by Dr McGraw in September 2010. Both the theory and its author has …