Humor

A new report finds that using humor in the workplace raises the status of male employees but has the opposite effect for women.

Humor is no laughing matter when it comes to persuading others.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

A taste for the grotesque is no reason for embarrassment.

Analyzing the universal humor of the fart.

By tracking the evolution of American humor, Kliph Nesteroff proves that comedians can do more than make us laugh. They can show us who we really are.

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

These subversive coloring books ridiculed pill-popping executives, hipsters, communist-hunters, and conspiracy theorists.

Researchers link mental speed and charisma in a new study.

Deprecating humor is satisfying because it helps make people feel superior, but it can also help produce a social environment more accepting of intolerance.

Contrary to a recent popular claim, Muslims—of course—believe in the freedom of expression. And they’ve been using it to some extraordinary ends.

Anziz Ansari's lengthy criticism of Rupert Murdoch over Twitter supplies more than laughs, research shows.

As one of our greatest living writers has his work lifted into the ivory tower, let’s reflect on how it’s the light, not the darkness, that keeps us going back for more.

A new paper provides an epic theoretical defense of humor in sociological research.

New research suggests we do find humor in tragedy, but only during a specific, limited window of time.

New research finds people who deny their darker impulses laugh less frequently.