Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study

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...

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Autores principales:	Angela Bartolo, Daniela Ballotta, Luca Nocetti, Patrizia Baraldi, Paolo Frigio Nichelli, Francesca Benuzzi
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	disparagement humor social inappropriateness offense event-related design emotions humor Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ad4c518cab5149348950107d2191fcd92021-11-22T04:32:55ZUncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.750597https://doaj.org/article/ad4c518cab5149348950107d2191fcd92021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.750597/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Disparagement 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.Angela BartoloAngela BartoloDaniela BallottaLuca NocettiPatrizia BaraldiPaolo Frigio NichelliFrancesca BenuzziFrontiers Media S.A.articledisparagement humorsocial inappropriatenessoffenseevent-related designemotionshumorPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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spellingShingle	disparagement humor social inappropriateness offense event-related design emotions humor Psychology BF1-990 Angela Bartolo Angela Bartolo Daniela Ballotta Luca Nocetti Patrizia Baraldi Paolo Frigio Nichelli Francesca Benuzzi Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study
description	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.
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title	Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study
title_short	Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study
title_full	Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study
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publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
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Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study

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