Why do people laugh at jokes?

Laughter seems to be a way to eliminate psychological conflicts.

As we all know, crying and laughing are both reflections of strong emotions. The crying and laughing of children and adults are essentially to meet psychological and physical needs. Laugh when you are satisfied, and cry when you are not satisfied. But the content is quite different. Children's laughter is only a simple psychological satisfaction, and the differences between adults are brought about by the great changes in emotional structure.

The function of laughter: 1. Express psychological satisfaction. 2. vent psychological conflicts.

Happiness and pain are opposite psychological states. Happiness comes from the generation and resolution of psychological conflicts, and pain comes from the psychological gap.

The first function is socializing, which is used for communication. It was introduced more before. The second role is the individual, which is mainly introspective and requires high intelligence. Why are humorous jokes funny? It is because they have created an environment and created various channels of interpretation. Simple and direct reasoning channels and complex reasoning channels get the opposite results, and the intellectual needs of the two channels are different, forming an intellectual gap. The greater the difference in complexity, the greater the excitement and the uncontrollable laughter. This has much to do with people's intelligence, so people with different intelligence have different feelings and reactions to jokes. Children can't understand many jokes, and everyone can understand some simple jokes, but they need other jokes with higher IQ to understand them. Different people will have different feelings when watching the same joke. For people with high IQ, the intelligence gap between simple path and complex path is greater. Children's jokes are funny, and adults may not feel anything after reading them, because the intelligence gap of such jokes is too small. Children can't understand jokes that adults can understand because they can't find another complicated reasoning channel. People with different intelligence have different requirements for this gap. The process of jokes coming into effect is the process of getting through another complicated channel, and this process also varies from person to person.