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Later this month, Phil Fernbach is moving to Boulder, CO to join the Leeds School of Business as a post doc in the Center for Consumer Financial Decision Making. You may remember Phil from a few recent posts. He and I have been looking at how you can win The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest […]
There are two prominent issues related to comedy and timing: One has to do with the way that a joke is executed: how quickly it is uttered, where the punch line is placed, when to pause, etc. I will save this issue for a future post. The other has to do with whether sufficient time […]
It is Startup Week in Boulder, CO. Tomorrow, Thursday 5/19 at 3:00 pm, I am leading a salon style discussion: Why startups should do experiments. I recently visited Dan Ariely, Duke University professor, best selling author, and proponent of experimentation in business (read more). In anticipation of the event, I asked him: Why should companies […]
Co-authored with Phil Fernbach. In last week’s post, we presented an analysis of the captions for The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest #281 (which Roger Ebert won). We hoped that the analysis would help generate a general set of principles that would be useful to folks who want to win future contests. Our takeaway: Try […]
Do you want to win The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest? The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest is the biggest of its kind in the world. Each week, thousands of readers submit potential captions for the cartoon on the last page of the magazine. The winner gets his or her name in The New Yorker […]
Peter McGraw talks to Jonathan Levav about Levav’s paper on sandwich eating and judicial rulings.
Comedian Alonzo Bodden reads Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren’s research paper on humor, and he discusses his reaction to their humor theory.
Peter McGraw’s research on humor is covered in Wired Magazine’s May 2011 issue, which is dedicated to comedy.
