Liu Xiaoping, Chen Yueti, Ge Jianqiao, Mao Lihua
School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2019 Aug 21;10:1849. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01849. eCollection 2019.
Humor has been a hot topic for social cognition in recent years. The present study focused on the social attribute of humor and showed different stories to participants, which were divided into four types according to the model of humor style, to explore the underlying neural mechanism of point-to-self aggressive humor and how individual differences modulated it. Measuring the degree of anger and funniness, results suggested that aggressive humor helped us in social communication by reducing the degree of anger. The neural activities showed that bilateral temporal lobes and frontal lobes played a synergistic role in the point-to-self aggressive humor processing, while point-to-self non-aggressive humor was dominant in the left-side brain. Results from the region of interest (ROI) analysis showed that the individual differences of the self-control level and the self-construal level may influence the neural processing of point-to-self aggressive humor by modulating the activated levels and patterns of the right inferior orbital frontal gyrus, the right superior temporal lobe, and the right superior frontal lobe.
近年来，幽默一直是社会认知领域的热门话题。本研究聚焦于幽默的社会属性，向参与者展示不同的故事，这些故事根据幽默风格模型分为四种类型，以探究指向自我的攻击性幽默的潜在神经机制以及个体差异如何对其进行调节。通过测量愤怒程度和有趣程度，结果表明攻击性幽默通过降低愤怒程度在社交沟通中对我们有所帮助。神经活动显示，双侧颞叶和额叶在指向自我的攻击性幽默加工中发挥协同作用，而指向自我的非攻击性幽默在大脑左侧占主导。感兴趣区域（ROI）分析结果表明，自我控制水平和自我构念水平的个体差异可能通过调节右侧眶额下回、右侧颞上叶和右侧额上回的激活水平及模式来影响指向自我的攻击性幽默的神经加工。
