Inside Jokes

Hurley, Matthew M.; Dennett, Daniel C.; Adams, Reginald B.

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“…In contrast to the “blooming, buzzing confusion” envisaged by James (1890), the perception of regulatory signals is often assumed to be “basic,” “primordial,” or “innate” (e.g., Damasio, 1994, 2003a; Damasio & Carvalho, 2013; Denton, 2006; Denton, McKinley, Farrell, & Egan, 2009; Greene, 2007; Hurley, Dennett, & Adams, 2011). Nevertheless, there is little empirical backing for such claims (see Blumberg, 2005; Harshaw, 2008) and a number of eminent researchers and theorists have argued that the perception of alimentary signals of hunger and thirst, in particular, develop during the individual lifespan; that is, that infants must acquire knowledge that particular internal signals indicate needs for specific resources having particular exteroceptively perceptible sensory qualities and requiring particular behaviors to satisfy (Baldwin, 1896; Bruch, 1969, 1970; Buck, 1989a, 1989b; Craig, 1912, 1918; Hebb, 1949; Hall, Arnold, & Myers, 2000).…”

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Interoceptive dysfunction: Toward an integrated framework for understanding somatic and affective disturbance in depression.

Harshaw

2015

Psychological Bulletin

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Depression is characterized by disturbed sleep and eating, a variety of other, nonspecific somatic symptoms, and significant somatic comorbidities. Why there is such close association between cognitive and somatic dysfunction in depression is nonetheless poorly understood. An explosion of research in the area of interoception—the perception and interpretation of bodily signals—over the last decade nonetheless holds promise for illuminating what have until now been obscure links between the social, cognitive-affective, and somatic features of depression. This paper reviews rapidly accumulating evidence that both somatic signaling and interoception are frequently altered in depression. This includes comparative studies showing vagus-mediated effects on depression-like behaviors in rodent models as well as studies in humans indicating both dysfunction in the neural substrates for interoception (e.g., vagus, insula, anterior cingulate cortex) and reduced sensitivity to bodily stimuli in depression. An integrative framework for organizing and interpreting this evidence is put forward which incorporates (a) multiple potential pathways to interoceptive dysfunction; (b) interaction with individual, gender, and cultural differences in interoception; and (c) a developmental psychobiological systems perspective, emphasizing likely differential susceptibility to somatic and interoceptive dysfunction across the lifespan. Combined with current theory and evidence, it is suggested that core symptoms of depression (e.g., anhedonia, social deficits) may be products of disturbed interoceptive-exteroceptive integration. More research is nonetheless needed to fully elucidate the relationship between mind, body, and social context in depression.

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Interoceptive dysfunction: Toward an integrated framework for understanding somatic and affective disturbance in depression.

Harshaw

2015

Psychological Bulletin

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147

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“…In humor we are free to engage in world-play, to goof around and to question authorities. Most recently, it has been argued that the pleasure of amusement comes from discovering a mistake in our belief structure (Hurley et al 2011). Least we forget scientific evidence: Neuroscientists could show that humorous stimuli engage the mesolimbic reward system (Franklin and Adams 2011).…”

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Technology is a laughing matter: Bergson, the comic and technology

Steinert

2015

AI & Soc

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There seems to be no connection between philosophy of humor and the philosophy of technology. In this paper, I want to make the case that there is. I will pursue a twofold goal in this paper: First, I will take an account from one of the seminal figures in the philosophy of humor, Henri Bergson, and bring out its merits for a philosophy of technology. Bergson has never been fully appreciated as a philosopher of technology. I will fill this gap and show that Bergson's account of the comic contains some interesting insights about our relation to technology. Second, I will show that humor and the comic open up a new perspective on technology that may facilitate new ways of thinking about our technological culture.

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“…The theories ranged from Freud's (1960/1905) expression of forbidden thoughts, superiority theories (e.g., Gruner, 2000), and benign violations (McGraw and Warren, 2010) to incongruity resolution (Suls, 1972), error detection (Hurley et al, 2011), and even purely neural accounts (Biederman and Vessel, 2006; Amir et al, 2015). Proponents of the different theoretical accounts often show a high degree of conviction, suggesting introspection might not be the best tool for judging the validity of humor theories.…”

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“…These methods have yielded much valuable insight, however they are imperfect. Content analyses examine a corpus of humorous stimuli in an attempt to determine whether the conditions for humor proposed by a theory are present in all corpus stimuli (e.g., Hurley et al, 2011). Unfortunately, the conditions proposed by many of the humor theories are too vague or abstract to allow a rigorous content analysis.…”

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The Frog Test: A Tool for Measuring Humor Theories' Validity and Humor Preferences

Amir

2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Inside Jokes

Cited by 176 publications

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Interoceptive dysfunction: Toward an integrated framework for understanding somatic and affective disturbance in depression.

Interoceptive dysfunction: Toward an integrated framework for understanding somatic and affective disturbance in depression.

Technology is a laughing matter: Bergson, the comic and technology

The Frog Test: A Tool for Measuring Humor Theories' Validity and Humor Preferences

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