[tips] Why is this Funny?
I can't seem to get something funny out of my mind and I was wondering if anyone on TIPS and a thought about this. Recently I featured this funny Vine video on my podcast: https://vine.co/v/hOjHxFjDznT I talked about the video in terms of stereotypes, but I keep wondering why the 4x4=16 part is funny. The only concept that came to mind is that of perceptual set. I remember some study where participants are shown a series of pictures of rabbits and then are shown the duck/rabbit illusion. In this case, they see the rabbit easily because as I understand it the researchers have created through the repeated presentations of the rabbit pictures an expectation or a perceptual set for rabbits. So here's what I've been thinking: we're all pretty much used to seeing 4x4 on a blackboard as a multiplication question. When you see 4x4 on a car you used to thinking of it in terms of four by four and not in terms of multiplication. So is the video funny because it forces us to change our way of thinking? It forces us to think of something we typically think of in one way, in another way. But I’m still left with this question: why does sudden switching of perspective make us laugh? Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31083 or send a blank email to leave-31083-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Why is this Funny?
I think the switch from car to multiplication is not central, but rather the context of it being the nerd's idea of vandalismand the incongruous/minimalist expression of vandalism as small writing. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Dec 7, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com wrote: I can't seem to get something funny out of my mind and I was wondering if anyone on TIPS and a thought about this. Recently I featured this funny Vine video on my podcast: https://vine.co/v/hOjHxFjDznT I talked about the video in terms of stereotypes, but I keep wondering why the 4x4=16 part is funny. The only concept that came to mind is that of perceptual set. I remember some study where participants are shown a series of pictures of rabbits and then are shown the duck/rabbit illusion. In this case, they see the rabbit easily because as I understand it the researchers have created through the repeated presentations of the rabbit pictures an expectation or a perceptual set for rabbits. So here's what I've been thinking: we're all pretty much used to seeing 4x4 on a blackboard as a multiplication question. When you see 4x4 on a car you used to thinking of it in terms of four by four and not in terms of multiplication. So is the video funny because it forces us to change our way of thinking? It forces us to think of something we typically think of in one way, in another way. But I’m still left with this question: why does sudden switching of perspective make us laugh? Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=31083 or send a blank email to leave-31083-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31084 or send a blank email to leave-31084-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Why is this Funny?
Because of the incongruity. On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.comwrote: I can't seem to get something funny out of my mind and I was wondering if anyone on TIPS and a thought about this. Recently I featured this funny Vine video on my podcast: https://vine.co/v/hOjHxFjDznT I talked about the video in terms of stereotypes, but I keep wondering why the 4x4=16 part is funny. The only concept that came to mind is that of perceptual set. I remember some study where participants are shown a series of pictures of rabbits and then are shown the duck/rabbit illusion. In this case, they see the rabbit easily because as I understand it the researchers have created through the repeated presentations of the rabbit pictures an expectation or a perceptual set for rabbits. So here's what I've been thinking: we're all pretty much used to seeing 4x4 on a blackboard as a multiplication question. When you see 4x4 on a car you used to thinking of it in terms of four by four and not in terms of multiplication. So is the video funny because it forces us to change our way of thinking? It forces us to think of something we typically think of in one way, in another way. But I’m still left with this question: why does sudden switching of perspective make us laugh? Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a021623341n=Tl=tipso=31083 or send a blank email to leave-31083-177920.a45340211ac7929163a021623...@fsulist.frostburg.edu -- Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 563-333-6482 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31086 or send a blank email to leave-31086-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
