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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

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Is Benign Violation Theory a Good Idea?

People who have a higher sense of themselves as moral will find more moral violations or norm violations to be not benign. And therefore, they will find them to be less funny. I lecture on humor in my intro psych course because it's a fun thing to talk about. So this is what psychologists would call a construct, high moral identity. The way it's operationalized is through this scale.

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