I find it funny that humour is treated in such a dry scientific manner, with a “humour equation”. I wondered how you would account for that in terms of your five factors, expected quality, displayed quality, noticability, validity and anxiety...but nevermind—it was mostly just a joke! ;)
In that case it probably felt inappropriate so you laughed at either me or your own expectations being wrong. The quality expected was in how you thought the subject would be treated, the low quality is in either what you saw from the original post or what you found out about your own expectations. Obviously I really meant to say it also, so it was valid, and you can see it fine so it’s noticeable, and there’s no threat here...especially since we’re online and detached from each other, so I think there was no cause for anxiety.
The joke in this case that you were telling is likely of the “imagine how wrong or inappropriate it would be if I actually said or felt this,” since I think it would be ironic for me to have proposed a humor theory that was laughably bad. I wasn’t sure how you or others would take the post, and I also didn’t have much “quality expectation” for how people would reply that could be violated by one that was of a certain type. (and of course some anxiety because I certainly wouldn’t want this thread to turn out poorly).
Thanks for the reply! I just like to analyze things within the theory as a form of exercise, and it helps me understand it of course.
I find it funny that humour is treated in such a dry scientific manner, with a “humour equation”. I wondered how you would account for that in terms of your five factors, expected quality, displayed quality, noticability, validity and anxiety...but nevermind—it was mostly just a joke! ;)
In that case it probably felt inappropriate so you laughed at either me or your own expectations being wrong. The quality expected was in how you thought the subject would be treated, the low quality is in either what you saw from the original post or what you found out about your own expectations. Obviously I really meant to say it also, so it was valid, and you can see it fine so it’s noticeable, and there’s no threat here...especially since we’re online and detached from each other, so I think there was no cause for anxiety.
The joke in this case that you were telling is likely of the “imagine how wrong or inappropriate it would be if I actually said or felt this,” since I think it would be ironic for me to have proposed a humor theory that was laughably bad. I wasn’t sure how you or others would take the post, and I also didn’t have much “quality expectation” for how people would reply that could be violated by one that was of a certain type. (and of course some anxiety because I certainly wouldn’t want this thread to turn out poorly).
Thanks for the reply! I just like to analyze things within the theory as a form of exercise, and it helps me understand it of course.