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How did Frankenstein's monster morph from creepy hulk to benign joke? Why giggle after a jump scare? Some smart folks explain in an #openaccess study in Evolutionary Psychology. Marc Hye-Knudsen / Jens K.-Christiansen / Brian Boutwell / Mathias Clasen doi.org/10.1177/147470…

Dad Jokes in the Mail+ dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… …referring to this Marc Hye-Knudsen article bps.org.uk/psychologist/d… #FathersDay #DadJokes

From Tetris to Zelda, to Elden Ring and League of Legends, our new preprint with Valérian Chambon delves into the diversity of video games and gamers' preferences 🎮. We present a cognitive framework for understanding this diversity. Paper and more at the end of this thread ⬇️

Happy to say I'll be starting a Ph.D. this September. That means we're looking for a new lab manager for @cobelab👇

New paper with Nicolas Baumard on the plasticity of curiosity (awspntest.apa.org/record/2024-97…)

"ChatGPT 3.5-produced jokes were rated as equally funny or funnier than human-produced jokes regardless of the comedic task and the expertise of the human comedy writer." osf.io/preprints/psya…

AI is now good at comedy-roasting us. This is the existential risk we've failed to worry about: that superintelligent machines make fun of us

Cool to be featured as quote of the day in @nature’s Briefing nature.com/articles/d4158… Happy Halloween

This fun piece I did for The Psychologist on the psychology of dad jokes continues to be the most popular thing I’ve written

Philosophy & folk-theories of science started on physics & controlled exp. What would happened if we had built it on historical & explicitly fragmentary sciences? In this paper we explore how theories are built & improved in the study of the evolution of cognition & communication

Feeling lucky and grateful for me and my students to have welcomed researchers whose work on fiction I deeply admire and find so inspiring (Mathias Clasen Maryanne L. Fisher Marc Hye-Knudsen). Thanks to them and to my students for an incredibly insightful semester!

A skeptical look at the health benefits of humour and laughter, my article in the The Psychologist bps.org.uk/psychologist/c… Steve Stewart-Williams Skeptical Inquirer Chris French profchrisfrench.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Prof Sophie Scott CBE Michael Shermer The Skeptic Rob Henderson Aberystwyth University