Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement ...
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Title :
Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study
Author(s) :
Bartolo, Angela [Auteur]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Ballotta, Daniela [Auteur]
Nocetti, Luca [Auteur]
Baraldi, Patrizia [Auteur]
Nichelli, Paolo Frigio [Auteur]
Benuzzi, Francesca [Auteur]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Ballotta, Daniela [Auteur]
Nocetti, Luca [Auteur]
Baraldi, Patrizia [Auteur]
Nichelli, Paolo Frigio [Auteur]
Benuzzi, Francesca [Auteur]
Journal title :
Frontiers in Psychology
Abbreviated title :
Front. Psychol.
Volume number :
12
Pages :
750597
Publisher :
Frontiers Media SA
Publication date :
2021-11-22
ISSN :
1664-1078
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences cognitives
English abstract : [en]
Disparagement humor is a kind of humor that denigrates, belittles an individual or a social group. In the aim to unveil the offensive side of these kinds of jokes, we have run an event-related fMRI study asking 30 healthy ...
Show more >Disparagement humor is a kind of humor that denigrates, belittles an individual or a social group. In the aim to unveil the offensive side of these kinds of jokes, we have run an event-related fMRI study asking 30 healthy volunteers to judge the level of fun of a series of verbal stimuli that ended with a sentence that was socially inappropriate but funny (disparagement joke -DJ), socially inappropriate but not funny (SI) or neutral (N). Behavioral results showed disparagement jokes are perceived as funny and at the same time offensive. However, the level of offense in DJ is lower than that registered in SI stimuli. Functional data showed that DJ activated the insula, the SMA, the precuneus, the ACC, the dorsal striatum (the caudate nucleus), and the thalamus. These activations suggest that in DJ a feeling of mirth (and/or a desire to laugh) derived from the joke (e.g., SMA and precuneus) and the perception of the jokes’ social inappropriateness (e.g., ACC and insula) coexist. Furthermore, DJ and SI share a common network related to mentalizing and to the processing of negative feelings, namely the medial prefrontal cortex, the putamen and the right thalamus.Show less >
Show more >Disparagement humor is a kind of humor that denigrates, belittles an individual or a social group. In the aim to unveil the offensive side of these kinds of jokes, we have run an event-related fMRI study asking 30 healthy volunteers to judge the level of fun of a series of verbal stimuli that ended with a sentence that was socially inappropriate but funny (disparagement joke -DJ), socially inappropriate but not funny (SI) or neutral (N). Behavioral results showed disparagement jokes are perceived as funny and at the same time offensive. However, the level of offense in DJ is lower than that registered in SI stimuli. Functional data showed that DJ activated the insula, the SMA, the precuneus, the ACC, the dorsal striatum (the caudate nucleus), and the thalamus. These activations suggest that in DJ a feeling of mirth (and/or a desire to laugh) derived from the joke (e.g., SMA and precuneus) and the perception of the jokes’ social inappropriateness (e.g., ACC and insula) coexist. Furthermore, DJ and SI share a common network related to mentalizing and to the processing of negative feelings, namely the medial prefrontal cortex, the putamen and the right thalamus.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
Administrative institution(s) :
Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille
Research team(s) :
Équipe Action, Vision et Apprentissage (AVA)
Submission date :
2024-01-04T08:21:53Z
2024-02-12T13:06:13Z
2024-02-12T13:06:13Z
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