strategy

Humour

Synonyms:
Encouraging laughter
Using humour
Description:

Communicating so that a highly complex stimulus in which two mutually incompatible frames of reference are linked together, producing a physiological reflex, laughter. It serves both the physical and psychological functions of releasing surplus tension.

Implementation:

Since humour depends so heavily on shared frames of reference, it is difficult to apply cross-culturally.

Claim:

Humour allows potentially dangerous tensions to be dissolved.

Counter Claim:

Humour only creates the milieu in which dialogue and openness are possible.

Narrower:
Making jokes
Constrained by:
Defining offensive humour
Problems:
Offensive humour
Values:
Humour
Subjects:
Recreation Recreation
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies