This is not a funny book-but it is the fi rst to bring together contemporary experimental studies on humor. The fourteen scholarly papers included here mark an important breakthrough in this vital, complex, and largely unexplored subject.Motivation in Humor shows that humor is researchable by scientifi c methods and indicates the diffi culties involved in such work. Here are samples of the important parameters of behavior and attempts at defi ning the factors that infl uence the humor response as well as the effects of this response upon subsequent emotional...