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By Noel Botham

From the creators of the number one long island Times,/I> bestseller The booklet of lifeless details comes one other enjoyable, foolhardy and fully frivolous, fact-filled book.

The lifeless details Society's newest assortment, the superb booklet of dead info, will resolution questions readers by no means even knew they'd. From house commute to the heritage of jelly beans, this wideranging, brain-teasing, and altogether lifeless publication will supply readers details to out-trivialize even their cleverest of partners. gains such interesting evidence as:

There is a city in West Virginia known as Looneyville

Women can speak with much less attempt than men

Lemons have extra sugar than oranges And solutions to those life-changing questions:

What was once the traditional Roman remedy for a stomachache?

What is a "buckle bunny"?

Where is the coldest position within the universe?

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While most of us feel confident about whether something is or is not funny, do we find it funny only because we notice our laughter or because of cognitions that we monitor independent of our laughter? Studies of children's humor have demonstrated that jokes or cartoons that pose some moderate level of effort for comprehension are judged to be funnier than those that are either very easily understood or understood only with extreme effort (McGhee, 1976; Zigler, Levine, & Gould, 1966, 1967). It is not clear whether these children (school-aged) were aware of the difficulty they had in understanding the material presented, but this would appear to be a good starting point for studying metacognitive determinants of judgments of funniness.

Psychological Bulletin, 1975,82,87-103. Das, J. , Kirby, J. , & Jarman, R. F. Simultaneous and successive cognitive processes. New York: Academic Press, 1979. , & Devine, J. Humor by violating an existing expectancy. Journal of Psychology, 1981, 108 107-110. , & Kizer, P. Humor and the incongruity hypothesis. Journal ofPsychology, 1975,90, 215-218. Flavell, J. Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new arena of cognitive developmental inquiry. American Psychologist, 1979, 34, 906-911. , & August, D.

Research completed in the 1970s by Howard Leventhal and his associates underscores the importance of initiating the study of metacognitive processes in humor. Their data suggest that males and females differ in the information (at least regarding laughter) used to make decisions about funniness. When shown either a slapstick film or cartoons accompanied by a laugh track, both high school (Leventhal & Mace, 1970) and college students (Cupchik & Leventhal, 1974) showed increased laughter, relative to a non-laugh-track condition.

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