Math and science teachers should continue to be funny! Joy is really helpful to science.

Giphy's funny math and science teacher is very popular with students, especially in domestic high school

Math and science teachers should continue to be funny! Joy is really helpful to science.

Giphy's funny math and science teacher is very popular with students, especially in domestic high school cram schools. Teachers basically have the ability to talk show, if nothing else, just to let everyone learn serious scientific knowledge in a relaxed atmosphere.

The same is true of the popular science community. It is common for scientists to tell scientific knowledge on the stage and amuse the audience, such as from Germany? Science slam 1, even like TED has the funniest selection. So is this humor helpful to the audience's study? There is a recent study on this.

How does joy help to learn scientific knowledge? The research team recruited 2 17 undergraduates from a large public university in the southern United States to do experiment 2. Researchers want to know whether the happier the audience is, the more they like the speaker and think the speaker is trustworthy. At the same time, I also want to know how the effect of explaining science in a humorous way will be affected by "the goodwill of the speaker" and "the professional sense of the speaker himself".

After simply measuring the degree of scientific interest and knowledge, the subjects were randomly assigned to watch laughter (laughter group, n? = 107) and science comedies without laughter (no laughter group, n = 1 10).

The reason why "laughter" is used for grouping is because researchers assume that laughter is "the main indicator of humor". Laughter is like a reminder that something interesting is happening, which is the purpose of canned laughter. Laughter is a hidden rule in social life. Tell everyone it's time to switch to happy mode. So it makes sense to say that movies with laughter will give the audience more joy.

This experimental film is a stand-up comedy (edy), which is the work of the German physicist and comedian Vince Ebert. The theme is "Science is our best". It was originally a movie that few people have seen on YouTube. The researchers deleted advertisements, YouTube logos and other distractions, cut them into two minutes and played them in English. The group without laughter removes the original audience laughter, and the other conditions are the same as those of the group with laughter.

After watching the film, the subjects were asked to evaluate the degree of joy, the goodwill of the speaker and the professionalism of the speaker, and also to measure their recognition that the film and the speaker are suitable sources of scientific knowledge.

Research conclusion: The funnier, the more pleasing and the more professional. The results showed that the group with laughter did have a higher sense of happiness. Then the point is: the higher the sense of joy, the higher the speaker's goodwill and the more professional the speaker is.

But in the end, the audience thinks that whether comedy is an effective source of scientific knowledge is mainly mediated by "the speaker's occupation" rather than "the speaker's goodwill"

In short, joy enhances the speaker's goodwill and professionalism, and professionalism helps to talk about scientific knowledge. The author also provides a set of equations:

I think comedy is an effective source of scientific knowledge =0.599+0. 18* joy +0.32 1* speaker's major.

The conclusion of the study is that using humorous science speakers will really make the audience feel better and more professional, so the audience will believe what he says more. The researcher explains this with the "disharmony theory" of humor principle, and thinks that when humor appears in the speech, it may trigger the audience to understand the psychological operation of complex jokes, and the pressure of understanding urges the audience to clarify more professional knowledge from the perspective of scientists. Notes 2 and 3

In short, create more fun. No matter whether the audience has learned anything, at least the topics such as "the lecturer is kind and interesting", "the lecturer's career is reliable" and "the course is helpful to me" on the course feedback form will have good results.

Additional screening at the same venue: There are two warm reminders about this survey. Handsome appearance is not the key. Some people will be worried. Handsome people talk humorously, while unattractive people talk like harassment. I think King Potter's humor is probably so real, but if you are a teacher, don't be afraid. An encouraging study in China shows that. Teachers' physical attraction is negatively related to their learning concentration, but has nothing to do with their learning effectiveness. However, a sense of humor is positively related to learning concentration and learning effectiveness.

That is to say, the learning effect is related to the teacher's humor, and handsome is not the key. Therefore, for the learning effect of the audience, popular science speakers can spend less energy on being handsome and more energy on creating humor.

It doesn't matter if it's not funny, but don't be annoying. A study covering 25 university science courses and 65,438+0,637 samples points out that humor helps to improve students':