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What makes something funny? Philosophers have been throwing this question since Plato. Now two scientists believe is psychological, they have come up with the formula: humor comes from an injury or threat to the way the world should be, that is, at the same time, benign.Most older theories of humor are all too short in one way or another, said A. Peter McGraw, University of Colorado-Boulder, who coauthored the study with Caleb Warren. Freud thought humor came from a release of tension, the other theory is that humor comes from a feeling of superiority, and yet one of incongruity. The researchers point out that all this could happen if you accidentally killed your spouse, but that would not be funny. They thought that, instead, a situation could...
