Journal article
The complexity of jokes is limited by cognitive constraints on mentalizing
- Abstract:
-
Although laughter is probably of deep evolutionary origin, the telling of jokes, being language-based, is likely to be of more recent origin within the human lineage. In language-based communication, speaker and listener are engaged in a process of mutually understanding each other’s intentions (mindstates), with a conversation minimally requiring three orders of intentionality. Mentalizing is cognitively more demanding than non-mentalizing cognition, and there is a well-attested limit at fiv...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Human Nature Journal website
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 130-140
- Publication date:
- 2015-11-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-08-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1936-4776
- ISSN:
-
1045-6767
- Pmid:
-
26597196
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:574664
- UUID:
-
uuid:360fc258-52aa-4729-8867-172a7b9ccaad
- Local pid:
- pubs:574664
- Source identifiers:
-
574664
- Deposit date:
- 2019-08-02
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Springer
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Metrics
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record