Humans pick up on sarcasm instinctively and usually do not need help figuring out if, say, a social media post has a mocking tone. Machines have a much tougher time with this because they are ...

Instructing us in the basics of paraverbal behavior, our mother used to say “Der Ton macht die Musik” (The tone makes the music). She anticipated the experimental finding that the reception and the ...

In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...