Why are jokes funny?

By Lydia Chilton
Backed by William Pietri, Jeff Barr, Dave Godwin, Denny Luan, Rick Wedgeworth, Jordan Pollack, Brent Huntington, Rob Miller, Anukul Veeraraghavan, Roger Clark, and 35 other backers
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University of Washington
Computer ScienceMathematics
DOI: 10.18258/0006
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Invited talk at a Seattle bar
March 10, 2013
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Are jokes just a violation of our expectations?
February 19, 2013
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Exisiting theories for why jokes are funny
February 19, 2013
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Designing a Crowdsourcing Experiment
April 28, 2012
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