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posted by martyb on Friday October 07 2016, @11:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the wit-is-intellect-—-dancing dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by JeanCroix on Friday October 07 2016, @01:07PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Friday October 07 2016, @01:07PM (#411464)
    If all those "+1 Funny" mods affected my karma, I'd be a karmillionaire.
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +2  
       Funny=2, Total=2
    Extra 'Funny' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   4  
  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Friday October 07 2016, @02:54PM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 07 2016, @02:54PM (#411506) Journal

    If all those "+1 Funny" mods affected my karma, I'd be a karmillionaire.

    Actually, "+1 Funny" mods do count towards your karma on SoylentNews, but with just over 500 comments [soylentnews.org] you're gonna need about another 199,500 +5 comments to get there. ;)

    Sadly, I just used my last mod point, otherwise I'd give your comment a "+1 Funny" just to help you on your way!

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    Wit is intellect, dancing.
    • (Score: 1) by Francis on Saturday October 08 2016, @03:04AM

      by Francis (5544) on Saturday October 08 2016, @03:04AM (#411677)

      It's impossible to ever have more than 50 points at any given time. If you're already at 50 and somebody mods you up, you're still at 50. If somebody mods you down, that does stick though. I'm not sure what the lower limit on that is, if it's zero or if there isn't one.

      • (Score: 2) by martyb on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:44PM

        by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:44PM (#412105) Journal

        There's code to cap the calculated Karma, but the underlying data for each of the comments still resides in the DB. It would be an interesting exercise to see what people's karma would be if there were no karma cap!

        In case you were wondering why there is a cap, there were problems with folks who, having accumulated massive karma on the other site from which this site's code was forked, went on a griefing spree without concern for their karma. Their solution was to institute a karma cap, and we inherited that logic here.

        I wonder if a Karma Cap looks anything like a fedora? ;)

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        Wit is intellect, dancing.