by Kare Anderson | Feb 5, 2018 | behavior, Caring, collaboration, contagion
Opportunity is often inconvenient. Wrenchingly, yet ultimately insightfully, I had two days in one week which were filled with the kind of “character-building opportunities” that might seem funny…someday far off in the future. They included a tense...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 17, 2017 | Article, behavior, Book
Here are some quick, sometimes surprising clues. All Jokes Come Down to One of Four Themes Anywhere in the world, all jokes can be reduced to just one of these themes, according to professor Richard Wiseman, a British psychologist who, via his LaughLab, conducted...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 23, 2016 | behavior, Caring, Connecting
What should you do when things get tense in a group, and you’re tempted to make snide comments or worse? Why, turn to humor, of course. It can crack the fractious mood, drop the growing wall between us and even bring us closer. Yet only the right kind of humor can...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 17, 2014 | behavior, Book, Humor
Do they crack up laughing or squirm and turn away when you attempt humor? Want people to laugh with you? Dark humor, done right, may be key according to The Humor Code co-authors, Peter McGraw and Joel Warner who travelled the world in search of the answer. Can you...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 3, 2013 | Connecting, contagion, Humor
Humor sometimes requires a target. If you make a bulls-eye out of someone weaker, particularly if you initiate the attack, you look like a bully. Take aim, instead, at the powerful. Or, rather than getting upset, consider yourself lucky when someone makes you a...
