Rod A. Martin

And because you said you're kind of an engineer and a, a... you know, you studied physics and stuff, I'm gonna t- I'm gonna give you a broader answer, but I think it'll give, you know, for the, um, analytic people maybe helpful perspective.

So there's a psychologist named Rod A. Martin who defined four styles of humor.

Those styles kind of dictate a little bit more about what the humor itself is doing.

So there's affiliative humor, which is positive, inclusive humor, and so this is where no one is a target.

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.

It is about the small moments in your day to have a big impact.