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  2. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

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    Norman Lear commented on his painful childhood due to the constant conflict from his parents stating that; "the only defence against that was to laugh at it, find out what was funny in it." [ 20 ] A study conducted by Fisher found humour-orientated individuals likely to identify their mothers as demanding, unsympathetic and distant.

  3. Katagelasticism - Wikipedia

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    Katagelasticists actively seek and establish situations in which they can laugh at others (at the expense of these people). There is a broad variety of things that katagelasticists would do—starting from harmless pranks or word plays to truly embarrassing and even harmful, mean-spirited jokes.

  4. Paradoxical laughter - Wikipedia

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    Paradoxical laughter has been consistently identified as a recurring emotional-cognitive symptom in schizophrenia diagnosis. Closely linked to paradoxical laughter is the symptom; inappropriate affect, defined by the APA Dictionary of Psychology as "emotional responses that are not in keeping with the situation or are incompatible with expressed thoughts or wishes". [3]

  5. Emotion classification - Wikipedia

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    In particular, the function, expression, and meaning of different emotions are hypothesized to be biologically distinct from one another. A theme common to many basic emotions theories is that there should be functional signatures that distinguish different emotions: we should be able to tell what emotion a person is feeling by looking at his ...

  6. 'Live, laugh, love': The most crushing Gen Z insult, explained

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    'Live, laugh, love': The most crushing Gen Z insult, explained

  7. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.

  8. List of Ig Nobel Prize winners - Wikipedia

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    Psychology: Ghent University researcher Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe those answers. [231] Peace: University of Waterloo psychology researcher Gordon Pennycook and colleagues, for their scholarly study called "On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound ...

  9. Psychologist weighs in on Durst's mental state

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    "I haven't examined him myself, but I can say that autism is not associated with violent behavior, and it doesn't explain things like his urination [habit]," Saltz said. "Urinating in public could ...