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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: 2) by gringer on Friday October 07 2016, @07:21PM
My colleagues frequently reject my suggestions for humourous or punny research paper titles. Apparently research papers are meant to be purely academic devices with a minimal amount of simple words that could potentially catch the eye of a stray observer.
Ask me about Sequencing DNA in front of Linus Torvalds [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Friday October 07 2016, @10:28PM
As I explained in my essay "Negative feedback patterns in post-Brzezikian models of frontal cortex activity", the title must be as incomprehensible as possible, so less eyes will give attention to the study, so the author is less likely to be bugged about it by one of his peers and can go on crunching out other papers.
Security through obscurity, done right.
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