Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew M. Hurley bilingual in his lifetime a successful

in his lifetime a successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers

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Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew M. Hurley bilingual in his lifetime a successfulPaperback in Very Good condition. Some things are funny jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, "The Far Side," Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching "The Simpsons"? In "Inside Jokes," Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose,