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Modern theory of humor is a multidisciplinary effort combining the insights of humor theorists [1] from various fields including especially philosophers, psychologists, and linguists. Broadly, humor theories have generally been divided into five categories: psychoanalytic, superiority/disparagement, arousal/relief, incongruity, and reversal.

Humor theorists

Notable thinkers from Plato to Aristotle, Descartes. Sigmund Freud, Gregory Bateson, and others have investigated or develop theories of humor. Notable modern theorists include William Fry, Waleed Salameh, Rod Martin, and John Morreall.

See also

laughter, A History of Derision
"What does laughter mean?” Henri Bergson begins his work on Laughter with this simple and general question. His intention is to analyze the things that make us laugh in order to find out how it is that they make us laugh."--Timo Laine[2]

See Henri Bergson's Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic .



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