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Scientists have developed the "perfect" prank
Scientists from the University of Orchus in Denmark conducted a study of how humor and fear intersect. So they managed to understand why screamers are often accompanied by laughter, and develop a theory about how to make the prank “ideal”. It is reported by The Guardian.
According to the study, humor requires a conscious violation of the picture of the human world that is joking on. But for the prank to work, almost immediately after that he must receive confirmation that what happened is something harmless or kind. Such violations can take various forms: from violations of linguistic norms, for example, in the form of a small pun or a more complex game of words, to violations of social norms-for example, in the form of a cring-comedy.
To find confirmation of your theory, a doctoral student from the University of Orchus, a leading study, Mark Hyo-Knudsen and his team studied the data of various examples of how this mechanism works. For example, games in peeps with young children - at first the game upset them, but soon they understand that the parent did not disappear, and they are ridiculous. As well as ghosts at home - an attraction where people are specially scared and where, as it turned out, people begin to laugh immediately after fright in most cases.
“Houses with ghosts or horror films specially immerse a person into their invented world in order to increase the overall level of fear. This, in turn, strengthens the fright from the screening, but the fright “throws” the viewer from the fictitious world, making it clear that he is harmless, ”said Hyo-Knudsen.
The team of researchers also studied more than 100 pink-video and came to the conclusion that for the success of the pranks it is necessary to enhance the effect of fear-for example, acting on common phobias. This, stated, helps to reduce the psychological distance during the pranks over a person - it is easier to scare him.
According to Hyo-Knudsen, in order to cope with this task, you do not need to "change into maniacs and hide in the closet, as just say" boo "-it is necessary to predict" what level of fear will violate the expectations of your goal, but at the same time will be able to make it laugh. "
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