The Home of Wellbeing and Joy
Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week, Charlie and Dr Marcus get into laughter itself. Why we do it, what it means when we do it together, and what it says about us when we can't stop even though we know we shouldn't. From a live laugh for a minute challenge to a proper psychology deep dive, this one is pure joy from start to finish.
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Charlie and Dr Marcus explore why we laugh, starting with a live laugh for a minute challenge and moving into benign violation theory, the idea that we find something funny when it breaks a social norm in a way that feels safe rather than threatening. They both take Rod Martin's Humour Styles Questionnaire live, a real psychometric tool used in humour research, and compare where they land across the four humour styles. Along the way there is an honest moment on self deprecating humour and what it can signal about confidence.
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Notice which of the four humour styles you lean on most, and with who. Humour is learned and socialised, not fixed, so it shifts depending on who you are with and how safe you feel with them. If you catch yourself using humour to put yourself down, that is worth sitting with rather than brushing off.
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๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฌ: Martin, R. A., Puhlik Doris, P., Larsen, G., Gray, J., and Weir, K. (2003). Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological wellbeing: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(1), 48 to 75.
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