What Good Is Comedy?

Comedy and Nigerian Pidgin English

INTRODUCTION

Nigeria, a federal republic in West Africa, is a multilingual country with “an estimated 516 languages,” (Gordon 2005) each one playing a very important part in the community where it is in use. There are other nonnative languages…

Should I Sleep Or Should I Laugh To Improve My GPA

Many have said that “laughter is the best medicine” but is laughter the best way for people to improve their grade point average? There had been many studies giving evidence that humor is the best way to improve a student’s performance in a…

Educational Engagement: Television Plus School Increase Memory for Children

Humor in Personality

Humor in general has a universal appeal to societies and cultures all over. Mendiburo-Seguel, Paez, and Martinez-Sanchez (2015) explain humor as, “[something] we can understand […] as a stable personality tendency referring to a sensation [or] a behavior […] as a way of coping, to an…

Comedy in Television Commercials

Humor has been used in much of prime-time television advertising in the United States, potentially to…

Animal Psychology

One interesting question that has been recently pondered is, “If any animal species are found to be conscious beings with…

Humor in The Medical Field

Doctors, physician’s assistants, nurses, therapists, and surgeons are high caliber occupations in the medical…

Humor in Mental Health

Many mental health issues are caused from triggers that our brains find threatening and cause us to lose motivation and…

The Effects of Humor on Children Developmentally