After "attractive," few compliments are more universally welcomed than "funny." But being deemed hilarious or witty is more than just a personality trait that can win you more friends. If used successfully, humor also can boost your status at work, persuading others that you're both more confident and more competent than you may actually be, according to forthcoming research into the connection between status and humor.
"If you are brave enough to tell the joke that you want to tell, whether it succeeds or not, people ascribe confidence to you because they see you as efficacious" for taking such a risk with all the ways a joke can potentially fail, said Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor at Harvard Business School and the paper's co-author. "To tell a successful joke does, in fact, take quite a lot of competence and not just general intelligence, but emotional intelligence, to figure out all those variables."
Humor is often viewed as superfluous or ancillary behavior and hasn't been thought of as something that affects relationships and hierarchy within organizations and in daily life.
In other words, don't be like Richmond.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Friday October 07 2016, @11:46AM
new fact
if used successfully, being funny brings you advantages.
warning> if A, then X causes (synonym of A) tautology, X irrelevant.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 07 2016, @12:44PM
It'll also get you laid.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by turgid on Friday October 07 2016, @01:04PM
Lay lady lay,
Lay me an egg for breakfast.
Stay lady stay,
Cook me the egg for breakfast.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Touché) by q.kontinuum on Friday October 07 2016, @05:18PM
Being funny the wrong way also gets you laid sometimes. Off, for example.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday October 07 2016, @10:16PM
I don't think I am ready to plug into a motherboard.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @12:44PM
Literally the least funny first post possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @03:00PM
Apparently, you don't have to be funny. You just have to try.
If you are brave enough to tell the joke that you want to tell, whether it succeeds or not, people ascribe confidence to you because they see you as efficacious