Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA.
J Gen Psychol. 2010 Oct-Dec;137(4):376-94. doi: 10.1080/00221309.2010.499398.
In a series of experiments, we investigated the effect of pun humor on memory. In all experiments, the participants were exposed to knock-knock jokes in either the original form retaining the pun or in a modified form that removed the pun. In Experiment 1, the authors found that pun humor improved both recall and recognition memory following incidental encoding. In Experiment 2, they found evidence that rehearsal is not the cause of the humor effect on memory. In Experiments 3 and 4, the authors found that the constraints imposed by puns and incongruity may account for the humor effects observed. Puns constrain and limit the information that can fit in the final line of a joke and thus make recall easier.
在一系列实验中，我们研究了双关幽默对记忆的影响。在所有实验中，参与者接触了保留双关语的原始形式的敲敲门笑话，或接触了去掉双关语的修改形式的敲敲门笑话。在实验 1 中，作者发现双关幽默提高了偶然编码后的回忆和识别记忆。在实验 2 中，他们发现复述不是幽默对记忆产生影响的原因。在实验 3 和实验 4 中，作者发现双关语和不和谐所施加的限制可以解释所观察到的幽默效果。双关语限制和限制了可以适合笑话最后一行的信息，从而使回忆更容易。
