Humor styles

And this is something that I encourage you to do in your own time, is consider what type of humor is your go-to humor.

There are four humor styles, and not all of them are healthy.

Not all of them feed that sort of sense of positive well-being.

There's the self-enhancing, which is the ability to find amusement in your you know, life's hardships and staying positive.

And I can only say just to please, please avoid using that.

So I think we're all mindful of what, you know, what gets our giggles going, you know, what sitcoms make us laugh, what dad jokes make us, you know, groan or laugh, you know, what comedy really makes us feel good and, you know, how we can build our own sense of humour in a way that that is more self-enhancing and more affiliative.

And there is actually a survey that you can do if you wanted to, called the Humor Styles Questionnaire by Rod Martin, if you'd like to go into that a little bit more deeply so you can identify what type of humor you tend to use and how you can develop it.

Okay, so moving along, the idea about the laughter effect is it's not about, as I say, sort of waking up and deciding to be a comedian.