Press Kitchen Blog - Infusing the tech crowd with interpersonal communication skills: The Technology of Comedy at SXSW.
March 9, 2013
Grantland - Who Is the Funniest NBA Player?.
March 7, 2013
The Last Word or Nothing - Why is falling funny?
February 26, 2013
Polityka.pl - Z czego się śmiejemy? I dlaczego.
February 22, 2013
The Globe and Mail - Video: Do you tease your co-workers? Maybe you should .
February 5, 2013
Probably Science - Episode 55 with Dr. Peter McGraw.
February 4, 2013
WAMC Academic Minute - Humor and Tragedy .
January 29, 2013
Women's Health - How to Make People Laugh.
January 7, 2013
NPR Morning Edition - Can An Algorithm Discover The Key To Laughter?
January 1, 2013
The Atlantic - The Truth of 'This Is 40': It's Actually Not Weird to Want Your Spouse to Die.
December 20, 2012
Nightline - Nurse Duped by 'Queen's' Prank Call Found Dead.
December 7, 2012
The Globe and Mail - VIDEO: The power of making people laugh at work .
November 6, 2012
Art of Being Alive - What makes us laugh and why? Breaking the Humor Code – with Prof. Peter McGraw.
October, 2012
Future-ish - Stylish Scientist List.
October, 2012
The Globe and Mail - Why do jokes sometimes fall flat?
October 8, 2012
ZME Science - The science of humour – what makes a good joke?
October 10, 2012
Discovery News - When Does Tragedy Become Funny?
September 18, 2012
The Voice of Russia - New Study Explains the Science Behind Humor.
September 15, 2012
Smithsonian - When bad things become funny.
September 14, 2012
FZ - När är det okay att skämta om saker?
September 12, 2012
The Daily Mail - Take note, Frankie Boyle: Researchers investigate how soon is 'too soon' for a bad taste gag.
September 12, 2012
WEI - Vanaf wanneer is een grap over een tragedie echt grappig?
September 11, 2012
Science a GoGO - Joke boffins analyze tragedy humor.
September 11, 2012
Live Science - Too Soon? Study Reveals 'Sweet Spot' in Joking About Tragedy.
September 10, 2012
MSNBC’s Body Odd - Too soon? Study reveals timeline for joking about tragedies.
September 10, 2012
Stone Hearth Newsletter - Tragedies as the subject of humor: is it ever OK?
September 10, 2012
Science Daily - Too Soon? Too Late? Psychological Distance Matters When It Comes to Humor.
September 10, 2012
Medical Daily - Too Soon? When Is It Okay to Joke About Tragedies?
September 10, 2012
Medical Xpress - Too soon? Too late? Psychological distance matters when it comes to humor.
September 10, 2012
Australian Broadcast Corporation - Is there a science to humour?
September 7, 2012
Kickin’ it Mary Lynn Style - Peter McGraw and Joel Warner.
August 2, 2012
Chortle - Funny in theory.
July 28, 2012
Denver Art Museum - Q&A with the Humor Code from Untitled #47 (LOL).
June 18, 2012
Business Insider - Most People Are Irrational About The Fungibility Of Money.
May 29, 2012
Westword - The Humor Code, Untitled edition: Pete McGraw and Joel Warner explain funny.
May 27, 2012
Denver Post - Writer Joel Warner and scholar Peter McGraw attempt to unravel The Humor Code.
May 25, 2012
KUNC 0 Getting Serious About the Science of Humor.
May 24, 2012
Sandpaper Suit - Recap of Bridgetown.
April 18, 2012
Porltland Mecury - Bridgetown Comedy Fest: Silver Hot Pants and Danner Boots.
April 15, 2012
WBEZ - Finding humor in 'benign violations'.
April 24, 2012
Culture Mob - Science and Laughs: Bridgetown Comedy Festival Day 3.
April 15, 2012
APA Observer - April Fool’s! A Reading List All About Humor.
April 1, 2012
The New York Times - Olympic Mascots Inspire Imitations.
March 27, 2012
Huffington Post - Turn Left? The Lack of Right-Wing Comedians.
March 26, 2012
The Bez - Harboring guilt and pleasure in equal measure.
March 26, 2012
Психологическая дистанция от трагического случая делает его смешным - The Prime Russian Magazine.
March 12, 2012
The Body Odd - Our Lin-sane attraction to terrible puns, explained.
February 24, 2012
Association for Psychological Science - Gender And Humor: Was Christopher Hitchens Right When He Said Women Aren’t Funny?.
January 5, 2012
Gamasutra- Opinion: A theory about humor in games.
January 2, 2012
LA Weekly - Laughter Auditions: How I Learned How to be a Professional Laugher.
December 23, 2011
World Pharma News - Commercial or communal: Why is outsourcing taboo for churches and pharmaceutical companies?
December 14, 2011
Science Codex - Commercial or communal: Why is outsourcing taboo for churches and pharmaceutical companies?
December 13, 2011
Montreal Gazette - We laugh until it hurts.
November 12, 2011
Montreal Gazette - We laugh until it hurts.
November 12, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald - Searching for the soul of wit in a throwaway line.
October 29, 2011
Daily Camera - When it comes to charitable giving, people respond to their immediate emotions, CU study says.
October 4, 2011
Boston Globe Magazine - The science of laughter.
October 2, 2011
Wall Street Journal - How About Never—Is Never Good for You? Celebrities Struggle to Write Winning Captions .
September 10, 2011
NPR's All Things Considered - To Dodge Blame, Officials Prepare Public For Worst.
August 31, 2011
Washington Post - Does politicians’ fear of blame hinder the war on terror?.
August 26, 2011
BBC Focus Magazine - The Science of Laughter.
August 2011
CJAD 800 AM - Interview at Just for Laughs Festival.
July 29, 2011
From the Desk of Bob Mankoff - Benign violations and distant mishaps.
July 13, 2011
Montreal Gazette - Curb Your Enthusiasm: Return of the King (of Cringe).
July 7, 2011
Montreal Gazette - Peter McGraw puts on his lab coat to look at the science of laughter.
July 2, 2011
The Ron and Don Show - The Science of Comedy.
June 27, 2011
On the Media - Cracking the Caption Code.
June 24, 2011
Wisconsin Public Radio - What makes something funny? After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest explore the science of humor, and what makes jokes work.
June 17, 2011
Freakonomics Blog - Cracking the F&#%ing Humor Code.
June 14, 2011
Enid News - One nation, under God, and funnier than most.
June 11, 2011
From the Desk of Bob Mankoff - Cracking the Caption Code.
June 1, 2011
Wired Magazine - One professor’s attempt to explain every joke ever.
May 2011
Punchline Magazine - Professor answers the question: Why is gross-out humor so funny?
May 31, 2011
MSNBC - The science of the gross-out comedy.
May 26, 2011
Fotogramas.es - La ciencia de la risa.
May 23, 2011
The Q - What makes things funny.
May 18, 2011
Slate Browbeat - 5 Leading Theories for Why We Laugh—and the Jokes That Prove Them Wrong.
May 13, 2011
KFI AM 640 - In studio guest.
May 15, 2011
The Dominion Post - The joke is on those who devise theories to explain what's funny.
May 5, 2011
Underwire - Cracking the Code of The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest.
May 16, 2011
Wired Storyboard: The Grand Unified Theory of Humor.
May 3, 2011
The Portland Mercury - Presenting a Grand Unified Theory of Humor.
May 3, 2011
Huffington Post - Is It Time for DIA to Reprioritize Its Security Measures?
April 29, 2011
Westword - Marijuana patients get their humor tested by nutty professor Peter McGraw in Wired.
April 15, 2011
Yahoo News - What really makes people laugh at jokes on April Fool’s Day?
April 14, 2011
Westword Blog - Quiznos' new commercials are the freakiest things we've ever seen -- but will they sell?
March 31, 2011
Fox News - Heard the one about the college humor lab? Colorado has the punchline.
February 25, 2011
7NEws TheDenverChannel.com - CU Lab Studies Why Some Things Are Funny .
February 25, 2011
Daily Camera - CU-Boulder prof starts Web site collecting funny police reports.
February 24, 2011
Westword - FunnyPoliceReports.com: Humor professor Peter McGraw gets into the online meme game.
February 23, 2011
Thrillist - Funny Police Reports; CU lab humor's itself, you.
February 17, 2011
The Financial Times - Something for the Weekend.
February 11, 2011
NOW Magazine - Spending the pain away.
January 21, 2011
Politics Daily - Doritos, Pepsi Max and Religion: An Unholy Mix in Super Bowl Ad Contest.
January 20, 2011
Princetion Alumni Weekly (PAW) - Anatomy of the funny bone.
January 19, 2011
2010
TranslationGuyBlog – Why this joke isn’t funny.
September 9, 2010
News.com.au – What makes us laugh?
August 29, 2010
Westword - World's funniest joke & other selections from the silliness syllabus of nutty CU prof Peter McGraw,
August 27, 2010
Westword – What makes us laugh? Professor Peter McGraw thinks he’s found the answer to one of humanity’s greatest questions,
August 26, 2010
Scientific American - Low-Level Moral Transgressions Make Us Laugh,
August 20, 2010
Brain Mysteries – People think immoral behavior is funny – but only if it also seems benign,
August 14, 2010
MediWorld rkr – Why do v find crude jokes funny?,
August 13, 2010
Association for Psychological Science – What Makes Things Funny?,
August 12, 2010
The Post Chronicle – Immoral Behavior Funny If Harmless,
August 12, 2010
Overthinking It – Scientology Wins! Pop Culture defeats psychology on the subject of humor,
August 12, 2010
MedIndia – Why Some Things Make Us Laugh?,
August 11, 2010
The Times of India – Scientists demystify why we laugh at crude jokes,
August 11, 2010
The Times of India – Scientists demystify why we laugh at crude jokes,
August 11, 2010
Wall Street Journal – Political Stooges, August 11, 2010
Live Science – Study Reveals Why We Laugh at Disgusting Jokes,
August 10, 2010
msnbc– Science explains the gross-out comedy, August 10, 2010
PsychCentral – New Theory on Humor, August 10, 2010
E! Science News – People think immoral behavior is funny – but only if it also seems benign, August 9, 2010
Physorg.com – People think immoral behavior is funny – but only if it also seems benign, August 9, 2010
Science Blog – People think immoral behavior is funny – but only if it also seems benign, August 9, 2010
Science Daily - People think immoral behavior is funny – but only if it also seems benign, August 9 2010
The Beautiful Brain – Funny How?, August 9, 2010
Boulder Daily Camera – TEDxBoulder: Speakers to bring diverse ideas to Chautauqua. August 5, 2010
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Financial Times - Go for Gold, Be Happy With Less.
