Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract/Objectives

Humor is not just about laughing, but also the charm of interpersonal communication, which makes men and women more popular. One sentence makes people laugh, one sentence makes people jump. People who understand humor know how to use it to overcome embarrassment or crisis, at the same time showing their own breadth of mind and tolerance. When we face an awkward situation, instead of being silent, we should use humor to subtly diffuse it. The curriculum aims to ensure health and promote the well-being of all age groups, reflect gender equality in humorous education, promote emotional education among domestic and international cultures, guarantee the right for all individuals to receive education and popularize lifelong learning. The Italians obviously consider their sense of humor as the best in the whole world, while the one of the Chinese nation is below average. The sense of humor displayed by men and women is also very different from each other. Boys prefer more aggressive and self-enhancement humor than girls. There are also huge differences between various cultures. Europeans regard self-deprecating humor as a negative humor style, while the Chinese would most appreciate it. There's a high degree diversity in appreciation of humor between special groups (e.g., those who suffer from high-functioning autism- Asperger syndrome) and ordinary people. As for the first mentioned ones, they are afraid that those who are laughed at are generally considered to lack a sense of humor, and thus their brain mechanisms for offensive and common humor appreciation is also less active. Therefore, this course focuses on humor understanding and humor creation, allowing it to be integrated into daily life, enhancing the sense of humor among Chinese people as well as appreciating the humor displayed by various cultures.

Results/Contributions

Start by collecting humor stimulus materials to practise, become self-confident and talkative as well as exercise self-expression ability in an amusing way. Because brain mechanisms for offensive humor and common humor appreciation of those who are afraid of being laughed at and then to be considered to lack a sense of humor, are also less active. During classes, the instructor arranges activities which involve humor; teaches self-deprecating humor to make fun of oneself in order to strengthen the humor response ability to offensive humor; and further demonstrates how to use humorous style "one-liner jokes" materials to enhance humor understanding and appreciation. Secondly, the ability of communicating in a certain language does not guarantee understanding of the jokes of foreign cultures. The sense of humor and taboos between various cultures are not identical. Moreover, their representants know how to use humor according to the situation, culture and environment. Finally, humor might boost social relations. However, not every sense of humor is positive. It is like a double-edged sword. The improper use could hurt people. On the contrary, its clever use may relax tense atmosphere. It would make people laugh. In Chinese society, people appreciate humor styles that improve social relations (self-deprecating humor and friendly humor), especially self-deprecating humor. Appreciation of self-deprecating humor has significantly higher functional connectivity in the frontal temporal lobe and frontal lobe than self-enhancing humor, the amygdala-frontal connection is also higher than aggressive humor. Moreover, appreciation of affiliative humor is much higher than self-enhancing humor in the nucleus accumbens-temporal lobe connectivity, and the connectivity between the temporal parietal lobe and frontal lobe is relatively higher than aggressive humor.

Keywords

Sense of humorhumor neural mechanismhumor training coursesgender differencescross-cultural comparisonamygdala

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Contact Information

詹雨臻
ycchan@mx.ntnu.edu.tw