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🗓️ 18 May 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | We can learn to serve a tennis ball, to play piano, to become a better public speaker. |
0:06.2 | And so all of those things suggest to me that if you wanted to try to be funnier, you |
0:11.6 | could improve that skill. |
0:20.1 | Welcome to The Art of Charm. |
0:21.1 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
0:22.1 | Today, we're talking with Dr. Peter McGraw. |
0:24.7 | He's a professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Colorado and Boulder, |
0:28.8 | he studies humor, judgment, emotion, choice. |
0:31.8 | He spent the last 10 years studying the answer to the question, what makes things funny and |
0:36.2 | led him to found the humor research lab, aka hurl. |
0:40.2 | I see what he did there. |
0:41.6 | Today we're going to discover why humor is ubiquitous. |
0:44.2 | Amusement and laughter is present in all cultures, occurs across all age groups and is |
0:48.0 | even experienced by non-human mammals. |
0:50.1 | You can tickle rats and we'll go there. |
0:51.8 | We'll also discuss why people should pursue more humor in their life, coping relationship |
0:56.4 | building, how to pursue humor more effectively, in other words, how to be funnier, and explain |
1:00.5 | how comedy can be a tool for good, such as speaking truth to power and for evil, like bullying. |
1:06.3 | Enjoy this episode with Dr. Peter McGraw. |
1:08.7 | And if you're new to the show, we'd love to send you some top episodes and the AOC toolbox. |
1:13.4 | That's where we study the science of people and discuss concepts like reading body language, |
1:17.6 | having charismatic nonverbal communication, the science of attraction, negotiation techniques, |
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