Abstract
Cognitive psychology has made an important impact on the psychological study of humor. In fact, the most influential comprehensive theories of humor can be described as cognitive theories: they borrow concepts and theory from cognitive psychology to describe the mental processes involved in the perception and interpretation of a stimulus event, identifying perceptions of incongruity as a cognitive mechanism that is minimally necessary for all humor. In this chapter, important contributions to the cognitive psychology of humor from a broad network of related disciplines including linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science are discussed. Indeed, many important theoretical advances in recent decades have originated in linguistics.
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