The Privileged Role of the Late-Night Joke: Exploring Humor's Role in Disrupting Argument Scrutiny

By Dannagal Goldthwaite Young. 2008

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Satire, Punch Lines, and the Nightly News: Untangling Media Effects on Political Participation (2011, background): “Because research demonstrates that humor requires effortful processing on the part of audience members (Young, 2008), we expect there will be significant differences in audience members who view political entertainment versus those who rely on traditional TV news, where the purpose is to inform,…”
Testing Logic-based and Humor-based Corrections for Science, Health, and Political Misinformation on Social Media (2019, background): “However, a previous study found that humorous fact-checks were no more effective than non-humorous fact-checks in producing message attention or reducing misperceptions (Young, Jamieson, Poulsen, & Goldring, 2018), and others argue that humor can deter effortful processing (Kim & Vishak, 2008; Young”
Humor Works in Funny Ways: Examining Satirical Tone as a Key Determinant in Political Humor Message Processing (2014, methodology): “Alternatively, Young (2008) offered a resource allocation hypothesis in which the cognitive load required to process satirical humor reduced individual-level resources available for scrutinizing the political arguments (see below for a detailed definition of resource allocation).”
The Affect Effect of Political Satire: Sarcastic Humor, Negative Emotions, and Political Participation (2014, background): “These results support the optimistic view that exposure to sarcastic political humor foster individual’s participation in politics (Cao & Brewer, 2008; Hoffman & Thomson, 2009), but with a noteworthy caveat that those with greater skills and resources are more likely to obtain benefits from politica”