What does a sense of humor mean and why is it important?

To give yourself a sense of humor, first of all, you have to improve your knowledge level, otherwise you will only make some very low-level jokes, which is not a sense of humor but a reflection of no quality, and then, you have to learn to practice your eloquence, you can't tell others an interesting thing and tell it for a long time! Also, you have to pay attention to the details of life, although life is very hard, but when you do anything, you will find the joy in it, record this happiness, and after a long time of accumulation, you will naturally become humorous.

When you say it, of course, it means that what you say can make others laugh, or it is that it makes others think that you speak funny in their hearts, but there is no trace of evil thoughts.

Of course, if you want to be humorous, but you also want to make people feel that you don't mean to be bad with you, just look at the books you usually read.

1. Humorous people are more concerned about falling in love:University of Kansas, USA.

Psychologist Jeffrey Hall asked volunteers to conduct a "blind date experiment" and found that in the eyes of girls, humor represents an outgoing personality for boys, and boys who can make themselves happy will bring happiness. In the eyes of women, men with a sense of humor are less radical and more peaceful; In the eyes of men, humor is the source or sign of female vitality.

2. Humorous people are easy to relieve stress:Humor is dealing with relationships.

A buffer in social interactions.

It is inevitable that some collisions, misunderstandings and contradictions will occur, and some embarrassing and unpleasant things will occur. Noble humor can not only dilute contradictions and eliminate misunderstandings, but also express apologies or tactfully criticize them, so that people can quickly get out of trouble, avoid embarrassment, relieve inner pressure, and ease the atmosphere.

3. Humorous people easily overcome fear:Humor distracts fear, it changes a person's perception of the past and present. If you can dismiss the previous story as "ridiculous", then the traumatic experience of childhood will no longer be so tangled in your psyche.

If you have the idea of self-amusement, you will be able to free yourself from the marital problems that are bothering you with anxiety. Laughter forces us to take some softening between the situation and the reaction, and some necessary distance.

4. Humorous people are more inclined to be optimistic:If a person can deal with his previous unpleasant memories or current painful events with humor, then he can change his cognitive outlook and fill his life with smiles from time to time, so that people can be more effective in alleviating suffering.

A person's sense of humor can be influenced by both innate and acquired factors. Innate factors mainly include genes and heredity, which are related to people's personality, emotions, and way of thinking. Acquired factors include social background, family education, personal experience and observations.

Some people are born with a sense of humor, while others can continue to improve their sense of humor through learning and practice. For example, Luo Xiang is a professor of criminal law, and his sense of humor may be partly due to his work background and personal observation experience, but he is also likely to further improve his sense of humor through continuous study and practice.

Therefore, the sense of humor is formed by the influence of a combination of factors, and different people are affected by different factors to show different humor.

The famous playwright George Bernard Shaw once said: "Humor is to use the most relaxed language, to say the deepest truth, on the surface it feels ridiculous, if you continue to dig deeper, you will laugh from the bottom of your heart." ”

In the book "Sense of Humor", the author defines humor as telling pain and truth from an interesting perspective.

We encounter a lot of pain, failure, bad things in life, and expressing it in another way will give another inspiration.

A sense of humor is a special kind of emotional expression. It is based on intimacy, and the care effect of humanized cuteness. This budding "pediatric state" evokes a sense of humor when it is perceived.

The budding state of humanity includes preliminary form, primary intelligence, primary emotional intelligence, inefficient neural control, primary fun, primary language, imbecile envy and unilateral stupidity, and so on.

As a necessary path for human growth, cuteness has been deeply engraved in biological mechanisms, and even similar cuteness in animals will inspire human affection and humor. Therefore, the sense of humor is a kind of intimacy that is high and low, and the subject of the sense of humor is full of understanding and empathy for the object. A high sense of humor is completely different from ridicule, because the object of ridicule is incomprehensible to the subject, or is considered by the subject to be pathological.

The pathological state is pathological, while the budding state is physiologically growing.