Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind

MIT Press (2011)
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Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks,watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, DanielDennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective.

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original Hurley, Matthew M.; Dennett, Daniel Clement; Adams, Reginald B. (2013) "Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind". MIT Press

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